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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Transfusion. 2018 Nov 8;59(1):79–88. doi: 10.1111/trf.14987

TABLE 2.

Results of the generalized estimating equation model assessing the difference in hemolysis in male versus female, among race/ethnicity groups versus white donors, and among blood centers compared to the ARC site*

Spontaneous hemolysis
Oxidative hemolysis
Osmotic hemolysis
Mechanical hemolysis
Estimate Pr(>|W|) Estimate Pr(>|W|) Estimate Pr(>|W|) Estimate Pr(>|W|)
Sex
  Males 0.046 0.0519 2.35 0.0008 8.30 <0.0001 1.04 <0.0001
Group
  Super donors 0.094 0.0072 −0.29 0.7415 4.40 0.0019 0.42 0.0450
  Other −0.103 <0.0001 −0.02 0.9930 −10.38 <0.0001 −1.31 0.0045
  Hispanic −0.089 0.0001 3.48 0.0696 −0.73 0.8146 −0.31 0.3166
  Asian −0.073 0.0017 −0.34 0.7972 −8.26 <0.0001 −0.36 0.4417
  African American 0.058 0.1939 −1.14 0.3913 −15.52 <0.0001 −1.67 < 0.0001
Hub
  BCW 0.048 0.0691 4.92 < 0.0001 −3.09 0.0742 −0.20 0.3798
  BCP −0.015 0.3999 −0.38 0.7201 −6.13 0.0010 NA NA
  ITxM 0.287 <0.0001 −2.27 0.0257 1.50 0.4217 −0.03 0.9125
*

Reference groups are female for sex, white for groups, and ARC for hubs.