Table 2. stable isotope incorporation correlations (number of observations).

Malaria group
	Hb	Log ferr	Log ZnPP	Log STfR	Log Epo	Log CRP
Log Isotope incorp.	−0.17(34)	−0.43(32)1	−0.02(34)	0.14(32)	0.05(30)	−0.35(32)1
Hb		−0.36(35)1	−0.45(37)2	−0.28(35)	−0.7 (33)2	−0.15(35)
Log ferritin			0.24(35)	−0.42(35)1	0.6 (33)2	0.61(35)2
Log ZnPP				0.12(35)	0.4(33)1	0.4(35)1
Log STfR					0.05(33)	−0.17(35)
Log Epo						0.42(33)1
Combined group
	Hb	Log ferr	Log ZnPP	Log STfR	Log Epo	Log CRP
Log Isotope incorp.	−0.14(61)	−0.22(51)	0.24(59)	0.29(59)1	0.27(58)1	−0.44(54)2
Hb		0.09(62)	−0.6(70)2	−0.29(70)1	−0.66(69)2	−0.06(64)
Log ferritin			−0.15(62)	0.03(62)	−0.25(62)1	0.25(57)
Log ZnPP				0.54(69)2	0.52(68)2	−0.05(63)
Log STfR					0.45(69)2	−0.08(64)
Log Epo						−0.02(64)

The combined non-malaria group represents data of ⁵⁷Fe absorption on Day 1 and ⁵⁸Fe absorption on Day 15. All correlations expressed as Spearman coefficients.

¹p<0.05.

²p<0.01.