Malaria Journal

Table 4 Correlation between parasitaemia, platelets, Hb, RBC and RBC indices

From: Haematological parameters and their correlation with the degree of malaria parasitaemia among outpatients attending a polyclinic

Correlations
		Parasite density	Haemoglobin	HCT	MCH	MCHC	Platelet	RBC
Parasite Density	Pearson Correlation	1	− 0.205	− 0.142	− 0.240^*	− 0.040	− 0.142	− 0.062
	Sig. (2-tailed)		0.054	0.185	0.024	0.708	0.184	0.564
	N	89	89	89	89	89	89	89
Haemoglobin	Pearson Correlation	− 0.205	1	0.880^**	0.297^**	− 0.104	− 0.225^*	0.764^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.054		0.000	0.005	0.330	0.034	0.000
	N	89	89	89	89	89	89	89
HCT	Pearson Correlation	− 0.142	0.880^**	1	0.087	− 0.486^**	− 0.163	0.799^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.185	0.000		0.418	0.000	0.126	0.000
	N	89	89	89	89	89	89	89
MCH	Pearson Correlation	− 0.240^*	0.297^**	0.087	1	0.471^**	− 0.089	− 0.346^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.024	0.005	0.418		0.000	0.409	0.001
	N	89	89	89	89	89	89	89
MCHC	Pearson Correlation	− 0.040	− 0.104	− 0.486^**	0.471^**	1	− 0.001	− 0.407^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.708	0.330	0.000	0.000		0.994	0.000
	N	89	89	89	89	89	89	89
Platelet	Pearson Correlation	− 0.142	− 0.225^*	− 0.163	− 0.089	− 0.001	1	− 0.136
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.184	0.034	0.126	0.409	0.994		0.204
	N	89	89	89	89	89	89	89
RBC	Pearson Correlation	− 0.062	0.764^**	0.799^**	− 0.346^**	− 0.407^**	− 0.136	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.564	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.000	0.204
	N	89	89	89	89	89	89	89

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

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