Table 1: Clinical and laboratory factors in SCD patients.

Severe SCD

Non-Severe SCD

P-value

Age

0.016*

≥ 7 years

75 (57.14%)

76 (42.37%)

< 7 years

102 (42.86%)

57 (57.63%)

Gender

0.724

Male

106 (62.41%)

83 (59.89%)

Female

71 (37.59%)

50 (40.11%)

Treatment:

Blood Transfusion

0.8992

Yes

121 (72.21%)

94 (69.94%)

No

52 (28.79%)

38 (30.06%)

Haemoglobin (g/L)

6.229 ± 0.186

6.548 ± 0.127

0.145

Red blood cell

2.415 ± 0.06752

2.23 ± 0.09621

0.1064

White blood cell (k/uL)

22.2 ± 1.00

18 ± 0.786

0.0019**

Serum creatinine (umol/L)

49.81 ± 2.996

47.33 ± 1.412

0.4935

Lactate dehydrogenase (u/l)

854.4 ± 47.44

805.3 ± 40.97

0.438

Blood urea nitrogen (mmol/l)

2.922 ± 0.1901

2.963 ± 0.173

0.876

Total bilirubin (umol/l)

57.02 ± 5.11

61.04 ± 5.959

0.6076

Direct bilirubin (umol/l)

22.37 ± 2.325

23.67 ± 3.329

0.7456

Indirect bilirubin (umol/l)

34.77 ± 3.589

37.65 ± 3.498

0.576

Temperature

37.52 ± 0.06442

37.63 ± 0.0729

0.2575

Respiration

32.18 ± 0.7746

27.45 ± 0.5944

< 0.001***

Pulse

106.6 ± 1.539

104.3 ± 1.633

0.342

Duration

6.311 ± 0.2036

4.692 ± 0.1969

< 0.001***