Table 4.

Iron status measures in intervention women classified as ferritin responders or non-responders.

Variable *	Ferritin Responder (n = 17)	Ferritin Non-responder (n = 26)	p value
Ferritin, percent change	100.75 ± 17.51	−12.74 ± 4.08	p < 0.0001
TfR, percent change	−8.23 ± 3.69	5.90 ± 3.16	p = 0.006
Body iron, absolute change (mg/kg)	2.67 ± 0.36	−0.65 ± 0.24	p < 0.0001
Hb, percent change	5.23 ± 1.76	0.11 ± 0.98	p = 0.009

* Change between baseline and endpoint. Values are means ± SE. P values refer to between-group comparisons.