Table 2.

Age and sex adjusted partial Pearson correlation coefficients between serum levels^a of iron markers and biomarkers of selected risk factors of diabetes in the sub-cohort

	Ferritin		sTfR		sTfR/ferritin ratio
Marker or biomarker	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value
sTfR	−0.16	<0.001
sTfR/ferritin ratio	−0.97	<0.001	0.41	<0.001
BMI	0.21	<0.001	0.10	<0.001	−0.17	<0.001
Waist circumference	0.23	<0.001	0.11	<0.001	−0.18	<0.001
Red meat intake	0.09	<0.001	0.01	0.51	−0.08	<0.001
Adiponectin	−0.08	<0.001	0.02	0.32	0.08	<0.001
GGT	0.26	<0.001	0.08	<0.001	−0.22	<0.001
ALT	0.24	<0.001	0.07	0.003	−0.21	<0.001
Fetuin-A	−0.04	0.07	0.08	<0.001	0.06	0.01
hs-CRP	0.16	<0.001	0.04	0.11	−0.14	<0.001
HDL-cholesterol	−0.08	<0.001	−0.03	0.14	0.07	0.003
Triacylglycerol	0.13	<0.001	0.03	0.20	−0.15	<0.001

No. of individuals included in sub-cohort, n = 1,969

^aBased on log-transformed values of biomarkers