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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Thrombocytopenia and PT-INR in patients with anorexia nervosa and severe liver dysfunction

 

Patients with severe liver dysfunction

(N = 58)

Matched control patients

(N = 58)

P-value

Age (years), mean (SD)

29.9 (14.3)

30.4 (13.7)

0.87a

Diagnosis

 ANR, N (%)

43 (74)

41 (71)

N/A

 ANBP, N (%)

15 (26)

17 (29)

 

Sex

 Male, N (%)

0 (0)

0 (0)

N/A

 Female, N (%)

58 (100)

58 (100)

 

BMI on admission (kg/m2), mean (SD)

11.6 (1.6)

12.3 (1.3)

0.009a

Minimum platelet count (104/μL), mean (SD)

12.9 (7.0)

19.6 (4.2)

 < 0.001b

Minimum WBC count (103/μL), mean (SD)

2.5 (1.4)

2.8 (0.8)

 < 0.001c

Maximum PT-INR, mean (SD)

1.10 (0.18)

1.00 (0.09)

 < 0.001b

Maximum AST (U/L), mean (SD)

553 (984)

43 (21)

N/A

Maximum ALT (U/L), mean (SD)

546 (706)

53 (32)

N/A

  1. Abbreviations: ANR anorexia nervosa restricting type, ANBP anorexia nervosa binge-purging type, BMI body mass index, WBC white blood cell, PT-INR prothrombin time-international normalized ratio, AST aspartate aminotransferase, ALT alanine aminotransferase, SD standard deviation, NA not available
  2. aStudent’s t-test
  3. bWelch’s t-test
  4. cMann–Whitney U-test