No effects of a 4-week post-exercise sauna bathing on targeted gut microbiota and intestinal barrier function, and hsCRP in healthy men: a pilot randomized controlled trial

Table 7 Pre- and post-study white blood cell counts (WBC) and subsets the ET group and the ET + S group

Blood cell count [10⁹/L]	Pre-study		Post-study		2-way ANOVA (p-value; η²)
Blood cell count [10⁹/L]	ET Mean ± SD	ET + S Mean ± SD	ET Mean ± SD	ET + S Mean ± SD	Group	Time	Group x Time
White blood cells	6.6 ± 1	7.9 ± 3.6	5.8 ± 1.2	6.5 ± 1.5	0.322	0.054	0.606
Neutrophils	3.3 ± 0.5	4.7 ± 3.5	2.6 ± 0.9	3.2 ± 1	0.405	0.009 (0.46)	0.923
Lymphocytes	2.4 ± 0.8	2.1 ± 0.3	2.3 ± 0.7	2.3 ± 0.4	0.140	0.033 (0.3)	0.848
Monocytes	0.5 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.2	0.5 ± 0.2	0.7 ± 23.4	0.044 (0.6)	0.591	0.145
Eosinophils	0.2 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.2	0.2 ± 0.2	0.3 ± 0.4	0.887	0.070	0.604
Basophils	0.04 ± 0.1	0.03 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.0	0.064	0.001	0.178

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