Insight into antiphospholipid syndrome: the role and clinical utility of neutrophils extracellular traps formation

Table 4 Correlation studies of MPO level with the other studied parameters in all studied groups, normal control group, reactive group, and APLS patients’ group

	All studied groups		Control group		Reactive Group		APLS
	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value
Age (years)	0.177	0.098	0.054	0.820	0.009	0.971	0.234	0.105
HB g/dL	−0.352	0.001**	−0.064	0.789	− 0.061	0.799	0.181	0.213
WBCs (×10³/ul)	0.230	0.030*	0.292	0.211	0.031	0.898	0.120	0.410
NE (×10³/ul)	0.226	0.034*	0.338	0.144	0.011	0.962	0.041	0.780
N/L ratio	0.164	0.125	0.293	0.210	−0.013	0.956	−0.129	0.377
PLT (×10³/ul)	−0.189	0.076	0.232	0.324	−0.160	0.500	0.042	0.774
PT (min)	0.218	0.040*	0.035	0.883	−0.211	0.373	0.370	0.009**
INR	0.341	0.001**	0.233	0.322	−0.111	0.651	0.315	0.028*
PTT (min)	0.137	0.210	0.108	0.652	−0.246	0.296	−0.084	0.585
CRP (mg/dL)	0.167	0.132	0.287	0.220	−0.297	0.203	−0.457	0.002**
ESR (mm/hour)	0.349	0.001**	−0.082	0.731	−0.043	0.858	0.119	0.415
Histones (ng/ml)	0.836	0.000**	0.161	0.497	0.659	0.002**	0.798	0.000**

P-value > 0.05: Non-significant; P-value < 0.05*: Significant; P-value < 0.01**: Highly significant, analysis was done by Spearman correlation coefficient

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