Association between Inflammatory Cytokine Levels and Thrombocytopenia during Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax Infections in South-Western Coastal Region of India

Table 3

Stratification of study participants according to the varying intensity of thrombocytopenia.

Thrombocytopenia intensity	Healthy controls	P. vivax	P. falciparum	Mixed	Overall Infected	p value
Non-thrombocytopenia –NT (platelet levels >150 x10^3/μl)	168 (95.5)	75 (19.5)	36 (20.9)	23 (32.4)	134(21.4)	0.065
Mild thrombocytopenia – MT (platelet levels 100-150x10^3/μl)	6 (3.4)	127 (33.1)	48 (27.9)	13 (18.3)	188 (30)	0.055
Moderate thrombocytopenia –MDT (platelet level 50-100x10^3/μl)	2 (1.1)	129 (33.6)	57 (33.1)	19 (26.8)	205 (32.7)	0.512
Severe thrombocytopenia –ST (platelet levels <50x10^3/μl)	0(0)	53 (13.8)	31 (18.1)	16 (22.5)	100 (15.9)	0.279

Data represented as number of study participants (percentages) and was compared between three infecting groups by using values from multinomial proportion test. P value> 0.05 was considered to be significant.