Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio: A Systematic Scoping Review.

J Clin Med · 2021 · PMC8466606 · PMID 34575330

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highly significantp < 0.001actually significant

[ 78 ] reported a highly significant correlation between NLR and fecal calprotectin (r s = 0.347, p < 0.001); however, Bertani et al.

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approached significancep = 0.056so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

(2021) [ 57 ] did not find a correlation between NLR and MES (r s = 0.068, p = 0.375) though the correlation with disease extent approached significance (r s = 0.146, p = 0.056).

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near-significantp = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

[ 93 ] reported a near-significant correlation between baseline NLR and requirement for maintenance IFX ( p = 0.06).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.177not close (p > 0.1)

[ 51 ] attempted to distinguish CD from IBS using a cutpoint of 1.98, though it did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.177).

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