“…RDW was positively correlated with serum bilirubin and creatinine levels, prothrombin time, and negatively correlated with platelet count and serum albumin concentration. The elevation of the level of RDW could be caused by several factors such as inflammatory cytokines can suppress erythrocyte maturation faster, larger and accelerate reticulocytes to enter the peripheral circulation (Ren et al, 2023).…”