Table 1.

Baseline characteristics

	Anemic HF (n=36)	Non- Anemic HF (n=61)	Controls (n=38)	P value
				Overall	Anemic vs Non- anemic
Male Sex	34[94.4]	57[93.4]	30[78.9]	0.056	1.000
Race				0.088	0.255
Caucasian	22[61.1]	39[67.2]	16[42.1]
African American	9[25]	16[27.6]	17[44.7]
Hispanic	5[13.9]	2[3.4]	4[10.5]
Asian or Pacific
Islander	0[0]	1[1.7]	1[2.6]
CAD	28[82.4]	36[64.3]	11[28.9]	0.0001	0.093
CABG	8[30.8]	3[10.7]	1[2.6]	0.003	0.095
HTN	32[91.4]	44[75.9]	31[81.6]	0.175	0.060
DM	19[54.3]	19[32.8]	20[52.6]	0.061	0.041
COPD	5[14.3]	10[17.5]	3[7.9]	0.398	0.681
NYHA				0.0001	0.646
1	0	0	0
2	15[45.5]	32[55.2]	0[0]
3	17[51.5]	24[41.4]	0[0]
4	1[3.0]	2[3.4]	0[0]
Ejection Fraction (%)	27.6±1.5	25.0±1.1	NA	NA	0.316
BNP (pg/ml)	914.9±184.6	288.9±40.8	78.8±16.8	<0.001	<0.001
Age	67.7±1.7	60.6±1.2	63.6±2.2	0.01	0.001
Weight (Kg)	84.6±4.0	89.7±2.9	95.9±4.2	0.127	0.165
Height (m)	1.72±0.01	1.70±0.03	1.74±0.02	0.528	0.400
WBC (x103/μl)	9.9±3.0	7.8±0.30	8.04±2.82	0.558	0.083
Hemoglobin (gr/dL)	11.6±0.2	14.3±0.2	14.1±0.3	<0.001	<0.001
Platelet (x103/μ)	234±14	248±13	261±12	0.460	0.874
Creatinine (mg/dL)	1.4±0.1	1.3±0.1	1.1±0.1	0.073	0.306
Iron (μg/dL)	56.4±4.2	77.7±4.0	85.1±9.0	0.005	0.001
TIBC (μg/dL)	350.9±15.1	355.2±8.2	337.2±11.1	0.484	0.586
Ferritin (ng/ml)	160.6±45.4	146.1±15.8	156.5±38.4	0.938	0.302

Abbreviations: CAD: coronary artery disease, CABG: coronary artery bypass graft surgery, HTN: hypertension, DM: diabetes mellitus, COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The values within brackets represent percentages and the rest of the results are as mean ± S.D.