Table 3.

Comparison between patients with serum ferritin <500, and those with ≥500 ng/ml (applied statistics—Mann–Whitney test)

Parameter	Ferritin <500 ng/ml (n = 45)	Ferritin ≥500 ng/ml (n = 32)	P value
Age (years)	10.0 ± 4.6	11.5 ± 5.5	0.264
Total number of BTs	0.7 ± 1.3	2.83 ± 6.6	0.272
Number of BTs in last one year	0.4 ± 0.6	0.57 ± 0.9	0.979
Mean Hb (over previous 1 year) (g/dl)	7.2 ± 1.4	7.0 ± 1.5	0.820
Iron (μg/dl)	126.40 ± 66.2	157.7 ± 46.1	0.006
TIBC (μg/dl)	356.06 ± 98.7	308.3 ± 73.7	0.089
Transferrin saturation (%)	35.5 ± 15.8	52.6 ± 16.8	0.000