Table 3.

Correlation between demographic and clinical variables and the development of thrombotic events in thalassemic patients.

Variable	No history of TE (n=33)	History of TE (n=7)	p-value
Gender (M/F)	19/14	4/3	1.000¶
Age (years)	22 (20 – 26)	20 (19 – 21)	.217§
Type of thalassemia			.095#
Thalassemia minor	5 (15.2%)	0 (0.0%)
Thalassemia intermedia	19 (57.6%)	3 (42.9%)
Thalassemia major	9 (27.3%)	4 (57.1%)
Splenectomy	6 (18.2%)	5 (71.4%)	.011¶
Iron chelation therapy	13 (39.4%)	2 (28.6%)	.691¶

Data are ratio, median (interquartile range) or number (%).

^¶Fisher’s exact test.

^§Wilcoxon rank sum test.

#Chi-squared test for trend test.