Clinical Study
Clinical and Electrocardiographic Evaluation of Sickle-Cell Anaemia Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
Table 3
Mean pulmonary artery pressure in patients compared with controls.
| Age range | | t-test | df | value | Sickle-cell patients | Controls |
| 18–22 | 19.18 (9.79) | 10.38 (6.99) | 3.408 | 51 | 0.001* | 23–27 | 24.42 (6.68) | 7.09 (6.02) | 5.325 | 28 | 0.001* | 28–32 | 23.09 (7.07) | 7.86 (4.61) | 3.758 | 18 | 0.001* | 33–44 | 23.05 (4.96) | 10.09 (6.25) | 1.121 | 8 | 0.295 |
| Total | 21.80 (8.77) | 8.60 (2.99) | 6.785 | 118 | 0.001* |
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* Statistically significant (2 sided), PAP = pulmonary artery pressure, and SD = standard deviation.
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