Table 3.
Pairwise comparison of the characteristics of the case (ICU and non-ICU) and control groups using Tuckey post hoc
| Characteristics | Mean Difference | SD |
95% Confidence Interval |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Bound | Upper Bound | ||||
| ESR (mm/h) | |||||
| (control)-(Non-ICU) | –25.98 | 4.06 | –35.82 | –16.15 | <0.001 |
| (control)-(ICU) | –33.32 | 4.54 | –44.33 | –22.32 | <0.001 |
| (Non-ICU)-(ICU) | –7.34 | 5.00 | –19.45 | 4.77 | 0.315 |
| CRP (mg/l) | |||||
| (control)-(Non-ICU) | –37.72 | 5.05 | –49.97 | –25.47 | <0.001 |
| (control)-(ICU) | –43.59 | 5.66 | –57.30 | –29.88 | <0.001 |
| (Non-ICU)-(ICU) | –5.87 | 6.22 | –20.95 | 9.21 | 0.616 |
| Ferritin (µg/l) | |||||
| (control)-(Non-ICU) | –427.24 | 57.23 | –565.93 | –288.55 | 0.000 |
| (control)-(ICU) | –454.37 | 64.05 | –609.59 | –299.14 | 0.000 |
| (Non-ICU)-(ICU) | –27.13 | 70.45 | –197.88 | 143.63 | 0.922 |
| Albumin(g/dl) | |||||
| (control)-(Non-ICU) | 1.67 | 0.20 | 1.19 | 2.16 | 0.000 |
| (control)-(ICU) | 2.21 | 0.22 | 1.67 | 2.75 | 0.000 |
| (Non-ICU)-(ICU) | 0.54 | 0.24 | –0.06 | 1.13 | 0.085 |
| Neutrophil count × 10⁹ per L | |||||
| (control)-(Non-ICU) | –11.77 | 3.77 | –20.89 | –2.64 | 0.009 |
| (control)-(ICU) | –16.42 | 4.21 | –26.64 | –6.21 | 0.001 |
| (Non-ICU)-(ICU) | –4.66 | 4.64 | –15.89 | 6.58 | 0.578 |
| Lymphocyte count × 10⁹ per L | |||||
| (control)-(Non-ICU) | 12.17 | 3.60 | 3.44 | 20.90 | 0.004 |
| (control)-(ICU) | 16.76 | 4.03 | 6.99 | 26.53 | 0.000 |
| (Non-ICU)-(ICU) | 4.59 | 4.43 | –6.16 | 15.33 | 0.559 |