Table 1 The baseline clinical characteristics of the study cohort.

From: Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts short-term mortality in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury

 

All

(n = 170)

Survivors

(n = 123)

Non-survivors

(n = 47)

p-value

Age, years

51.6 \(\pm\) 15.2

49.6 \(\pm 15.2\)

56.8 \(\pm 14.1\)

0.005

Gender, n (%)

0.265

Male

136 (80.0)

101 (74.3)

35 (25.7)

 

Female

34 (20.0)

22 (64.7)

12 (35.3)

 

Hypertension, n (%)

0.613

No

138 (81.2)

101 (73.2)

37 (26.8)

 

Yes

32 (18.8)

22 (68.8)

10 (31.2)

 

Diabetes, n (%)

0.062

No

157 (92.4)

117 (74.5)

40 (25.5)

 

Yes

13 (7.6)

6 (46.2)

7 (53.8)

 

Time of injury, hours

10 (3.9,22.5)

10 (5,24)

8 (2,19)

0.062

Category of injury, n (%)

0.754

Car accident

89 (53.0)

65 (73.0)

24 (27.0)

 

Motorcycle

16 (9.5)

13 (81.3)

3 (18.7)

 

Fall from height

43 (25.6)

31 (72.1)

12 (27.9)

 

Fall

20 (11.9)

13 (65.0)

7 (35.0)

 

GCS, n (%)

0.001

Moderate

37 (21.8)

35 (94.6)

2 (5.4)

 

Sever

133 (78.2)

88 (66.2)

45 (33.8)

 

Pupillary, n (%)

0.865

Symmetry

106 (62.7)

77 (72.6)

29 (27.4)

 

Asymmetry

63 (37.3)

45 (71.4)

18 (28.6)

 

Rotterdam CT score

170 (2.8 \(\pm\) 1.3)

123 (2.5 \(\pm 1.1\))

47 (3.7 \(\pm 1.4\))

< 0.001

Neurosurgery, n (%)

 

No

88 (51.8)

67 (76.1)

21 (23.9)

0.253

Yes

82 (48.2)

56 (68.3)

26 (31.7)

 

Blood transfusion, n (%)

0.047

No

107 (62.9)

83 (77.6)

24 (22.4)

 

Yes

63 (37.1)

40 (63.5)

23 (36.5)

 

Platelet (\(\times {10}^{9}/l\))

180.3 \(\pm\) 63.7

185.9 \(\pm 59.9\)

165.7 \(\pm 71.4\)

0.065

Lymphocyte (\(\times {10}^{9}/l\))

0.8 (0.5, 1.3)

0.7 (0.5, 1.1)

1.0 (0.6, 1.9)

0.01

PLR

207.6 (128.0, 330.7)

232.8 (169.7, 350.9)

124.2 (81.8, 213.3)

< 0.001