TABLE 4.
Comparison of blood parameters in patients with chronic pancreatitis stratified by nutritional status.
| Missing data, n (%) | No malnutrition (n = 24) | Moderate malnutrition (n = 14) | Severe malnutrition (n = 28) | ||
| Complete blood Count | |||||
| Hemoglobin, mmol/L | – | 8.5 (±1.4) | 8.4 (±1.0) | 8.1 (±1.2) | |
| Hematocrit, L/L | – | 0.406 (±0.059) | 0.403 (±0.042) | 0.396 (±0.054) | |
| Mean corpuscular volume, fL | – | 87.0 (±6.3) | 89.0 (±5.0) | 90.6 (±5.3) | * ‡ |
| Mean corpuscular hematocrit, fmol | – | 1.81 (±0.15) | 1.86 (±0.11) | 1.85 (±0.12) | |
| Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, mmol/L | – | 20.8 (±0.9) | 20.9 (±0.5) | 20.4 (±0.6) | # |
| White blood cell count, 109/La | – | 7.4 (2.1) | 7.0 (1.9) | 8.4 (4.4) | |
| Platelet count, 109/La | – | 237 (62) | 204 (83) | 237 (129) | |
| Blood chemistry | |||||
| Creatinine, μmol/La | – | 75 (28) | 82 (26) | 63 (28) | ‡ |
| Cholinesterase, kU/L | – | 13.1 (±2.1) | 11.4 (±3.2) | 10.1 (±3.2) | * ‡ |
| Total bilirubin, μmol/La | – | 7.9 (3.3) | 7.5 (4.2) | 7.7 (5.6) | |
| Blood urea nitrogen, mmol/La | 1 (2) | 5.7 (2.3) | 4.7 (3.5) | 3.9 (2.2) | ‡ |
| Uric acid, μmol/La | – | 322 (107) | 318 (119) | 275 (131) | ‡ # |
| Albumin, g/La | – | 38 (6) | 39 (6) | 37 (11) | |
| Prealbumin, g/L | 1 (2) | 0.261 (±0.070) | 0.263 (±0.069) | 0.228 (±0.086) | |
| C-reactive protein, mg/La | – | 3.1 (4.7) | 3.1 (1.7) | 5.4 (27.5) | ‡ # |
| Interleukin 6, pg/mla | – | 2.3 (4.7) | 2.6 (3.1) | 2.0 (6.8) | |
| Interleukin 1 beta, pg/mla | 4 (6) | 4.9 (3.0) | 2.0 (3.0) | 5.0 (3.3) | |
| Tumor necrosis factor alpha, pg/mla | 3 (4) | 5.4 (4.1) | 5.9 (2.0) | 8.1 (4.7) |
All data is presented as mean (±SD) unless indicated otherwise.
aNon-normally distributed data is presented as median (IQR).
Differences between groups were tested using two-tailed t-test for or Mann–Whitney-U test for normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively.
*Indicates significant difference between patients with and without malnutrition, p < 0.05.
‡Indicates significant difference between patients without malnutrition and with severe malnutrition, p < 0.05.
#Indicates significant difference between patients with moderate and with severe malnutrition, p < 0.05.