. 2020 Feb 13;6(2):e03369. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03369

Table 2.

Blood count of neutrophils and lymphocytes and neutrophil ratio for lymphocytes among leprosy patients, according to clinical characteristics of patients with leprosy.

Leprosy reaction		Neutrophils (SD)	p^∗	Lymphocytes (SD)	p^∗	NLR (SD)	p^∗
Any	Present	8,108 (5,921)	<0.001	1,918 (948)	0.254	6.1 (10.8)	<0.001
Any	Absent	2,730 (1,295)	<0.001	1957 (544)	0.254	2.0 (0.7)	<0.001
Type 1	Present	5,490 (3,628)	0.003	1,778 (677)	0.078	3.4 (2.5)	0.144
Type 1	Absent	8,662 (6,504)	0.003	2,049 (1,006)	0.078	6.8 (12.9)	0.144
Type 2	Present	11,598 (6,592)	<0.001	2,104 (1,204)	0.377	9.7 (15.6)	<0.001
Type 2	Absent	4,947 (3,197)	<0.001	1,833 (641)	0.377	3.0 (2.2)	<0.001
WHO Classification	Multibacillary	7,595 (5,784)	0.013	1,906 (910)	0.105	5.7 (10.2)	<0.001
WHO Classification	Paucibacillary	4,028 (1,554)	0.013	2,095 (545)	0.105	2.0 (0.8)	<0.001
Bacilloscopic Index (n = 87)	< 3.0	5,914 (4,041)	0.001	1,925 (845)	0.588	5.3 (14.2)	0.114
Bacilloscopic Index (n = 87)	≥ 3.0	9,122 (6,607)	0.001	1,885 (972)	0.588	6.2 (6.3)	0.114

Values shown mean (standard deviation).

^∗

Non-parametric Mann–Whitney test.