Table 3.

levels of biochemical parameters in the blood plasma and erythrocyte of children with ASD (n = 51) and TDC (n = 40) expressed as mean ± SD.

	TDC group	ASD group	Sig.
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Total cholesterol TC (mmol/l)	3.54 ± 0.561	3.80 ± 0.927	0.032b*
Triglycerides (mmol/l)	0.62 ± 0.216	0.81 ± 0.432	0.199b*
HDL-C (mmol/l)	1.14 ± 0.313	1.17 ± 0.344	0.872b
LDL-C (mmol/l)	2.12 ± 0.439	2.28 ± 0.710	0.256b
Urea (mmol/l)	3.98 ± 1.084	3.92 ± 0.965	0.502b
Uric acid (mmol/l)	211.30 ± 55.419	226.37 ± 55.859	0.593b
Creatinine (µmol/l)	27.83 ± 4.031	30.71 ± 6.685	0.143a
ALT (U/l)	13.65 ± 3.424	14.61 ± 5.020	–
AST (U/l)	29.70 ± 5.954	33.57 ± 9.281	0.502b
FBG (mmol/l)	4.69 ± 0.466	4.95 ± 0.494	0.077b
Sodium Na+ (mmol/l)	137.85 ± 2.155	137.59 ± 2.816	0.477b
Potassium K+ (mmol/l)	4.39 ± 0.344	4.55 ± 0.457	0.140a
Chloride Cl- (mmol/l)	103.63 ± 1.970	103.33 ± 2.479	0.502b
Calcium Ca (mmol/l)	2.38 ± 0.103	2.34 ± 0.142	0.502b
Iron Fe (µmol/l)	10.55 ± 5.804	11.18 ± 5.881	0.672a
Magnesium Mg (mmol/l)	0.823 ± 0.066	0.802 ± 0.096	0.176bb
Erythrocyte Mg (mmol/l)	1.78 ± 0.447	1.48 ± 0.417	0.020b*
Total Protein Pr (mmol/l)	71.60 ± 3.045	73.04 ± 3.709	–

^a: Chi-square test ^b: Fisher’s exact test, SD: standard deviation, * Sig < 0.05

HDL-C: High density lipoprotein-cholesterol, LDL-C: Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol.

ALT: Alanine aminotransferase, AST: Aspartate aminotransferase, FBG: fast blood glucose.

-: no statistics were computed because all the categories were in the normal range.