Table 4 Blood parameters of male brick kiln workers and control.

From: Detection of reproductive and hematobiochemical biomarkers to evaluate the impact of heavy metal exposure on brick kiln workers

Blood parameters

Control

Exposed

P-value statistics

WBC (1 × 103)

8.51 ± 0.09

8.81 ± 0.05**

p = 0.004

LYM# (1 × 103)

2.10 ± 0.03

2.51 ± 0.04*

p = 0.021

MID# (1 × 103)

0.62 ± 0.02

0.77 ± 0.02**

p = 0.008

GRA# (1 × 103)

4.05 ± 0.05

4.76 ± 0.18**

p = 0.002

LYM (%)

25.60 ± 0.30

29.16 ± 0.31***

p = 0.001

MID (%)

6.07 ± 0.11

7.91 ± 0.11**

p = 0.003

GRA (%)

48.37 ± 0.51

58.34 ± 0.53**

p = 0.002

RBC (1 × 106)

4.94 ± 0.32

4.30 ± 0.37***

p = 0.001

HGB (g/dL)

14.02 ± 0.10

11.31 ± 0.10***

p = 0.001

HCT (%)

43.18 ± 0.26

34.77 ± 0.27***

p = 0.000

MCV (fL)

93.01 ± 0.24

84.04 ± 0.26**

p = 0.002

MCH (pg)

29.77 ± 0.18

23.81 ± 0.19***

p = 0001

MCHC (g/dL)

33.57 ± 0.08

30.96 ± 0.09**

p = 0.002

RDW-SD (fL)

48.83 ± 0.26

51.42 ± 0.37***

p = 0.000

RDW-CV (%)

9.63 ± 0.04

12.75 ± 0.06***

p = 0.001

PLT (1 × 103)

242.98 ± 4.14

297.89 ± 4.59***

p = 0.001

MPV (fL)

6.58 ± 0.041

7.55 ± 0.043***

p = 0.000

PDW (%)

12.91 ± 0.132

19.00 ± 0.137***

p = 0.001

PCT (%)

0.17 ± 0.0002

0.22 ± 0.003*

p = 0.018

P-LCR (%)

25.30 ± 0.41

13.65 ± 0.26**

p = 0.002

  1. *(p < 0.05), **(p < 0.01) and ***(p < 0.001) values for comparison among workers and control. Data represented as mean ± standard error of the mean. WBC White blood cells, LYM Lymphocytes, MID Mid-range absolute count, GRA Granulocytes, RBC Red blood cell, HGB Hemoglobin, HCT Hematocrit, MCV Mean corpuscular volume, MCH Mean corpuscular haemoglobin, MCHC Mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, RDW-SD Red blood cells distribution width-standard deviation, RDW-CV Red blood cells distribution-coefficient of variation, PLT platelets, MPV mean platelet volume, PDW Platelet distribution width, PCT Plateletcrit, P-LCR Platelets- large cells ratio number.
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