highly significantp < 0.0001
Notably, a highly significant association was noted between WBC count and pH changes over time (r = -0.707; p < 0.0001), but not between WBC count and variation of both pO 2 (r = -0.167; p = 0.121) or pCO 2 (r = 0.134; p = 0.348) values over time ( Figure 2 B).