. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 7.

Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008 Sep 6;32(11):1947–1953. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00782.x

Table 2.

Effects of alcohol and heme Iron intake on serum concentrations of ferritin, AST and ALT (models exclude two cases with high calorie intake and six cases with history of HIV)

		Male		Female
Independent Factor	Dependent Factor	Crude Beta (P value)	*Adjusted Beta (P value)	Crude Beta (P value)	*Adjusted Beta (P value)
Log Alcohol Intake (g per day)	Log Ferritin (ug/L)	0.09 (0.004)	0.09 (0.018)^a	−0.01 (0.8)	0.11 (0.2)^a
	Log ALT (U/L)	−0.01 (0.5)	−0.01 (0.6)^b	−0.02 (0.3)	−0.03 (0.2)^b
	Log AST (U/L)	−0.008 (0.7)	0.002 (0.9)^b	0.002 (0.9)	−0.02 (0.095)^b
Log Dietary Heme Iron Intake (mg/kg per day)	Log Ferritin (ug/L)	0.07 (0.4)	0.10 (0.5)^c	−0.53 (0.092)	0.20 (0.7)^c
	Log ALT (U/L)	−0.02 (0.8)	0.07 (0.4)^d	−0.18 (0.027)	−0.41 (0.041)^d
	Log AST (U/L)^f	−0.08 (0.2)	−0.05 (0.6)^d	−0.12 (0.049)	−0.26 (0.011)^d

Adjusted for age, BMI, ALT, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, heme iron intake and non-heme iron intake, ferroportin Q248H

Adjusted for BMI, HCV, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, heme iron intake and non-heme iron intake, ferroportin Q248H

Adjusted for age, BMI, ALT, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, alcohol and non-heme iron intake, ferroportin Q248H

Adjusted for BMI, HCV, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, alcohol and non-heme iron intake, ferroportin Q248H