Diagnostic utility of circulating interleukin-1 beta and microRNA-146a in differentiating febrile seizures from other pediatric conditions

Table 1 The demographic and laboratory data of the participants¹

Groups	HS	FO	FS	SO	P value
Age (Months)	39.23 ± 26.713	23.98 ± 17.006	21.75 ± 11.962	38.03 ± 23.345	< 0.001
Sex (M/F)	21/31	30/22	30/38	21/11	> 0.05
Family history of seizures	-	3.8%	26.5%	0%	< 0.001
Fever temperature (°C)	-	38.63 ± 0.562	38.69 ± 0.817	-	> 0.05
WBC count	9796.15 ± 2783.56	10750.00 ± 4320.79	10275.00 ± 6054.19	9662.50 ± 1255.89	> 0.05
RBC count	4.5537 ± 0.50459	4.4108 ± 0.44087	4.5354 ± 0.51568	4.6834 ± 0.45657	> 0.05
Hb (g/dL)	11.3288 ± 0.91058	10.8327 ± 1.37209	10.7221 ± 1.53466	11.3469 ± 1.54293	> 0.05
Hct (%)	33.4404 ± 4.90035	32.6788 ± 3.42925	32.4603 ± 3.18251	33.2844 ± 3.74649	> 0.05
Platelet count	318761.54 ± 90056.32	316192.31 ± 101805.67	308882.35 ± 107568.31	336593.75 ± 149717.12	> 0.05
MCH (pg)	25.0740 ± 2.82654	27.7602 ± 3.2323149	26.1144 ± 9.13959	24.6069 ± 4.75111	< 0.01
ESR (mm/hour)	12.3269 ± 6.07703	22.2885 ± 15.78202	14.4706 ± 9.12021	6.0313 ± 1.44768	< 0.01

¹Data were assessed for normality of distribution using the Shapiro-Wilk test. Normally distributed data are presented as mean ± SD. Non-normally distributed data are presented as median (interquartile range).

HS: Healthy subjects; FO: Fever-only; FS: Febrile seizure; SO: Seizure-only; WBC: White blood cell; RBC: Red blood cell; Hb: Hemoglobin; Hct: Hematocrit; MCH: Mean corpuscular hemoglobin; ESR: Erythrocyte sedimentation rate.