Tumor necrosis factor induced protein 3 gene polymorphism and the susceptibility to chronic primary immune thrombocytopenia in Egyptian children: a case-control study

Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics

Table 2 Comparison between chronic PIT patients and healthy controls as regard demographic, clinical, and laboratory data

Variables		Chronic ITP [n = 40]	Controls [n = 50]	p value
Sex [N (%)]	Male	17 (42.5)	22 (44%)	0.887
Sex [N (%)]	Female	23 (57.5)	28 (56%)	0.887
Age (mean ± SD)		8.14 ± 3.96	7.93 ± 3.82	0.835
Platelets at the time of sampling [× 10⁹/l (mean ± SD)]		124 ± 72.86	286.36 ± 80.9	< 0.001**
Hemoglobin at the time of sampling [g/dl (mean ± SD)]		10.98 ± 1.45	13.0 ± 1.02	< 0.001**
TLC at the time of sampling [× 10⁹/l (mean ± SD)]		10 ± 4.32	8.03 ± 1.84	0.036*