Table 5.

Principal components analysis of the parameters by diet and sex

Measure	AD Diet Males			ID Diet Males			AD Diet Females			ID Diet Females			AD Diet Sex Combined			ID Diet Sex Combined
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
Tfs					0.833				0.864		0.865			0.837			0.969
Plasma Fe		0.983			0.958			0.708			0.931				0.641		0.787	0.526
Hb	0.864			0.89			0.913			0.762		0.5	0.902			0.891
HCT	0.861			0.893				0.81		0.746			0.881			0.855
TIBC		0.628			0.56			0.727					0.65					0.922
Spleen Fe			0.815	0.72			0.851			0.868						0.821
Liver Fe			0.625	0.696					0.681	0.789				0.751		0.567		0.5
% of Total Variance	33.24	23.74	21.59	39.52	34.16		27.32	26.58	24.06	36.41	24.68	24.62	34.51	24.01	20.67	37.23	23.54	23.46

This analysis was performed on the strain means for each of the measures and the correlation matrix evaluated by varimax rotation.