Table 2.
Peripheral blood counts: institutional normal limits and outliers among individuals of the study population
| Parameter | Institutional normal limits | Out of limits in this study | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Units | Lower | Upper | nav | n (%) | Lowest | Highest | |
| Hemoglobin | mmol/L | ||||||
| Female | 7.4 | 10.7 | 71 | 0 (0) | – | – | |
| Male | 8.6 | 12.1 | 165 | 0 (0) | – | – | |
| Hematocrit | |||||||
| Female | 0.37 | 0.47 | 71 | 3 (4.0) | 0.35 | – | |
| Male | 0.40 | 0.54 | 164 | 1 (0.6) | 0.39 | – | |
| MCH | fmol | 1.70 | 2.10 | 103 | 5 (4.8) | 1.56 | – |
| MCHC | mmo/L | – | |||||
| Female | 20.0 | 23.0 | 43 | 1 (0.9) | 19.7 | – | |
| Male | 19.0 | 22.0 | 60 | 15 (25.0) | – | 23.3 | |
| MVC | fL | 80 | 96 | 235 | 10 (4.2) | 79 | 100 |
| White blood cells | X10^9/L | 3.80 | 9.80 | 236 | 4 (1.7) | – | 11.7 |
| Neutrophils | X10^9/L | 1.80 | 7.55 | 233 | 3 (1.3) | 1.74 | 8.75 |
| Eosinophils | X10^9/L | 0 | 0.49 | 225 | 7 (3.1) | – | 0.77 |
| Basophils | X10^9/L | 0 | 0.20 | 223 | 0 (0) | – | – |
| Monocytes | X10^9/L | 0.20 | 1.00 | 229 | 4 (1.7) | 0.12 | – |
| Lymphocytes | X10^9/L | 1.50 | 4.00 | 233 | 37 (15.9) | 0.73 | 4.04 |
| Platelets | X10^9/L | 150 | 400 | 236 | 0 (0) | – | – |
nav number of available observations