TABLE 8.
Menses and immune effects in girls (n = 84)
| Immune measure | Mean ± SD in girls (n)
|
t | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postmenarche (7) | Premenarche (77) | |||
| Absolute helper cells (no.) | 0.86 ± 0.08 | 1.03 ± 0.36 | 3.43 | 0.002 |
| Absolute lymphocytes (no.) | 2.21 ± 0.22 | 2.64 ± 0.80 | 3.52 | 0.002 |
| Absolute NK cells (CD56+) (no.) | 0.16 ± 0.05 | 0.24 ± 0.16 | 3.38 | 0.003 |
| Absolute T cells (CD3) (no.) | 1.49 ± 0.14 | 1.76 ± 0.58 | 3.24 | 0.003 |
| % NK cells | 6.46 ± 1.13 | 8.70 ± 4.39 | 3.40 | 0.002 |
| Phagocytosis | 198.00 ± 65.04 | 266.14 ± 119.96 | 2.42 | 0.035 |
| WBC count (no.) | 5.22 ± 1.42 | 6.44 ± 2.00 | 2.10 | 0.068 |