Carica papaya Leaves Juice Significantly Accelerates the Rate of Increase in Platelet Count among Patients with Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever

Table 1

Demographic characteristics and baseline biochemistry investigation of respondents by treatment.

Demographic characteristics	Interventional group; 𝑛 (%)	Control group; 𝑛 (%)	𝜒^2 (df)*	𝑃 value
Gender
Men	91 (46.9)	103 (53.1)	1.644 (1)	0.200
Women	20 (58.8)	14 (41.2)
Ethnicity
Malay	77 (48.1)	83 (51.9)
Chinese	4 (57.1)	3 (42.9)
Indian	11 (50.0)	11 (50.0)
Others	19 (48.7)	20 (51.3)
Age (mean/SD)	30.4 (10.3)^†	26.4 (7.3)^†	−3.370^††	0.001
Type of dengue fever
Classical dengue fever	42 (53.2)	37 (46.8)	0.971 (1)	0.324
Dengue haemorrhagic fever	69 (46.3)	80 (53.7)
Baseline Haematology investigation
Platelet count (×10^3/μL)	66.4 (22.8)^†	69.0 (22.6)^†	0.847^††	0.398
Total white blood cell (×10^3/𝜇L)	3.4 (1.7)^†	3.3 (1.6)	−0.297^††	0.766
Haemoglobin (g/%)	13.9 (1.5)^†	14.2 (1.4)^†	1.595^††	0.112
Haematocrit (%)	41.5 (4.2)^†	42.9 (6.0)^†	1.878^††	0.062
Lymphocytes (%)	41.8 (14.2)^†	40.9 (14.8)^†	−0.459^††	0.646
Neutrophils (%)	42.1 (17.7)^†	42.1 (19.4)^†	0.017^††	0.987

∗Pearson Chi-Square. Df (degree of freedom), ^†mean and standard deviation, ^††𝑡-value for independent samples 𝑇-test.