Prospective case control study of iron deficiency and the risk of febrile seizures in children in South Korea

BMC Pediatrics

Table 3 Comparison of major indices for iron state in children with with simple febrile seizures and complex febrile seizures

	Simple febrile seizures (n = 47)		Complex febrile seizures (n = 16)		P-value
	mean	SD	mean	SD	P-value
Red blood cells (*10 ^9 /L)	4.66	0.31	4.59	0.31	0.46
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	12.35	0.72	12.03	0.79	0.17
Hematocrit (%)	36.13	2.08	35.48	2.07	0.28
Mean cell volume (fl)	77.61	3.36	77.34	2.91	0.77
Mean cell hemoglobin (pg/cell)	26.76	1.95	26.26	1.17	0.33
Mean cell hemoglobin concentration (g/dL)	34.22	0.84	33.94	1.07	0.29
Red cell distribution width (%)	13.23	0.81	13.31	0.60	0.72
Reticulocyte (%)	1.69	0.45	1.75	0.63	0.69
White blood cells (*10^9 /L)	12,429.36	5207.71	11,418.75	5114.36	0.50
Platelets	292.15	90.34	256.00	83.20	0.16
Serum iron (μg/dL)^a	17.13	9.02	21.81	13.31	0.76
Total iron binding capacity (μg/dL)	324.94	46.46	332.81	34.83	0.54
Ferritin (ng/mL)	34.49	17.11	40.38	24.98	0.30
Transferrin saturation (%)^a	5.41	3.04	6.57	3.95	0.67

^a Analysis using Mann-Whitney U test, other variables were analyzed using unpaired two-sided t-tests

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