Table 1 Participants’ demographic and serology results
Category | Item | HC | ME/CFS | p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
General demographics | Age (years) | 43.10 ± 4.089 | 43.50 ± 4.126 | 0.989 |
Gender | > 0.999 | |||
 Male (%, n) | (40%, 4) | (40%, 4) | ||
 Female (%, n) | (60%, 6) | (60%, 6) | ||
BMI (kg/m2) | 23.41 ± 0.881 | 25.21 ± 0.937 | 0.120 | |
WHODAS | 1.382 ± 0.518 | 38.73 ± 5.504 | < 0.0001 | |
 Illness demographics (SF-36) | Pain (%) | 85.91 ± 5.026 | 28.18 ± 7.971 | < 0.0001 |
Physical Functioning (%) | 98.64 ± 0.975 | 35.45 ± 6.085 | < 0.0001 | |
Role physical (%) | 97.15 ± 1.547 | 13.08 ± 5.686 | < 0.0001 | |
General Health (%) | 74.99 ± 4.171 | 30.67 ± 3.988 | < 0.0001 | |
Social functioning (%) | 95.45 ± 3.049 | 28.41 ± 7.922 | < 0.0001 | |
Emotional wellbeing (%) | 94.45 ± 3.049 | 74.02 ± 9.277 | 0.069 | |
 Serology report | WBC | 5.945 ± 0.371 | 6.909 ± 0.539 | 0.223 |
Lymphocytes | 1.705 ± 0.127 | 1.947 ± 0.106 | 0.223 | |
Neutrophils | 3.575 ± 0.288 | 4.241 ± 0.501 | 0.519 | |
Monocytes | 0.466 ± 0.051 | 0.502 ± 0.051 | 0.467 | |
Eosinophils | 0.150 ± 0.031 | 0.518 ± 0.051 | 0.935 | |
Basophils | 0.046 ± 0.005 | 0.048 ± 0.006 | 0.955 | |
Platelets | 252.8 ± 24.12 | 246.8 ± 9.213 | 0.797 | |
RBC | 4.665 ± 0.102 | 4.808 ± 0.165 | 0.835 | |
Haematocrit | 0.416 ± 0.009 | 0.428 ± 0.013 | 0.618 | |
Haemoglobin | 136.2 ± 3.261 | 142.9 ± 4.089 | 0.339 | |