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Iron stores and prevalence of iron transfer block for patients with elevated C-reactive protein and patients with normal C-reactive protein.
| Elevated C-reactive protein n = 29 |
Normal C-reactive protein n = 19 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Increased iron stores | 59% | 16% |
| Normal iron stores | 22% | 21% |
| Decreased iron stores | 19% | 63% |
| Iron transfer block | 69% | 26% |
| No iron transfer block | 31% | 74% |
