Interactions of Consanguinity and Number of Siblings with Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Table 3

Comparing number of siblings in ALL children with other variables.

Characteristic	Mean number of siblings ± SD	P value
Father education
Low		0.100
Medium
High
Mother education
Low		0.0002
Medium
High
Platelet
Normal		NS
Abnormal
WBC
Normal		NS
Abnormal
Haemoglobin
Normal		NS
Abnormal
Consanguinity
Negative		NS
All		NS
Third degree		NS
Fourth degree
Age groups
0–4		0.0031
5–9
5–9
10-14		0.0245