Carica papaya Leaves Juice Significantly Accelerates the Rate of Increase in Platelet Count among Patients with Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever
Table 2
Comparison of platelet count in each group based on time.
Type of laboratory investigation
Interventional group ()
Control group ()
Platelet count
Mean difference (95% CI)
value
Mean difference (95% CI)
value
8–16 hours
0.993 (−1.660, 3.645)
0.740
0.460
−1.411 (−3.961, 1.140)
−1.094
0.276
8–24 hours
−0.432 (−4.422, 3.558)
−0.214
0.831
2.213 (−0.523, 4.948)
1.600
0.112
8–32 hours
−2.716 (−7.540, 2.107)
−1.114
0.267
2.775 (−0.796, 6.347)
1.537
0.127
8–40 hours
−7.890 (−14.472, −1.310)
−2.374
0.019
0.867 (−3.472, 5.207)
0.395
0.693
8–48 hours
−16.764 (−24.566, −8.964)
−4.256
<0.001
−7.703 (−14.055, 1.351)
−2.399
0.018
Repeated measure ANCOVA within group analysis was applied followed by multiple paired -tests.
*Bonferroni correction was applied by correcting the level of significance (0.05/5 = 0.01). Potential covariate (age) was controlled by using repeated measures ANCOVA (ANCOVA controlled for age).
