Table 5

Biochemistry results

	Alanine transamin- ase	Creatine kinase	Creatine kinase MB(%)	Aspartate transaminase	Lactate dehydro- genase	Activated partial thromboplastin time	Prothrombin time	Iron	Total iron binding capacity	Transferrin saturation	Ferritin
Acute (n)	105	105	33	105	105	99	99	87	87	87	87
Acute (mean)	33.2	227	3.69	31.9	189	29.4	14.8	15.6	69.2	23.1	281
95% CI	29.7 to 36.7	195 to 259	3.31 to 4.07	30.2 to 33.6	181 to 197	28.6 to 30.2	14.6 to 15.0	14.2 to 17.1	66.5 to 71.9	21.0 to 25.2	247 to 314
Median	30.0	180	3.60	30.0	180	28.0	15.0	15.0	68.0	23.0	241
SD	18.2	167	1.11	8.8	40	4.1	1.2	6.8	12.8	10.0	158
Range	12.0–101	38–1100	1.40–6.00	19.0–79.0	126–364	25.0–38.0	12.0–17.0	3.0–52.0	45.0–100	6.0–65.0	41–804
Normal range	0–45	0–190	<4.0	0–41	80–250	25–38	12.0–17.0	10.0–33	45–70	16–50	20–320
n > Normal range	20	47	12	15	10	0	0	1	33	1	23
% > Normal range	19	44.8	36.4	14.3	9.5	0	0	1.1	37.9	1.1	26.4
n < Normal range					0	0	0	12	0	20	0
% < Normal range					0	0	0	13.8	0	23	0
Recovery (n)	88	88		88	88	83	83	83	82	82	82
Recovery (mean)	33.0	174		27.5	165	31.1	14.7	15.7	63.3	25.0	243
95% CI	28.8 to 37.2	137 to 211		25.5 to 29.6	160 to 170	30.0 to 32.3	14.3 to 15.1	14.6 to 16.8	61.3 to 65.3	23.2 to 26.8	210 to 276
p Value	0.683	0.002		<0.001	<0.001	0.026	0.456	0.868	<0.001	0.120	<0.001