Table 3. Correlations between the liver iron concentration determined by MRI and iron biomarkers in 212 hemodialysis patients studied (Spearman rank order correlation test).

	Overall Cohort (n°1+n°2)(212 patients)		Cohort n°1 of 119 patients		Cohort n°2 of 93 patients
Parameter	Spearman rho [95% confidence interval]	P values at test	Spearman rho [95% confidence interval]	P values at test	Spearman rho [95% confidence interval]	P values at test
Serum Ferritin (microg/L)	0.52 [0.41 to 0.61]	p< 0.0001	0.52 [0.37 to 0.65]	p< 0.0001	0.47 [0.29 to 0.62]	p< 0.0001
serum iron (micromol/L)	0.22 [0.09 to 0.35]	p = 0.0011	0.26 [0.07 to 0.42]	p = 0.0048	0.26 [0.05 to 0.44]	p = 0.0128
Serum Transferrin (g/L)	- 0.34 [-0.46 to -0.21]	p< 0.0001	-0.24 [-0.41 to -0.05]	p = 0.0131	-0.35 [-0.52 to -0.15]	p = 0.0006
Serum solubleTransferrin receptors (sTfR) (mg/L)	- 0.12 [-0.27 to 0.02]	p = 0.0868	-0.07 [-0.27 to 0.14]	p = 0.5249	-0.11 [-0.31 to 0.11]	p = 0.3128
TSAT (%)	0.36 [0.24 to 0.48]	p< 0.0001	0.37 [0.20 to 0.52]	p< 0.0001	0.36 [0.16 to 0.53]	p = 0.0004
sTfR/Ferritin ratio	- 0.43 [-0.54 to -0.30]	p< 0.0001	-0.44 [-0.59 to -0.26]	p< 0.0001	-0.36 [-0.53 to −0.16]	p = 0.0004
Hepcidin (ng/mL)	0.42 [0.29 to 0.54]	p< 0.0001	0.34 [0.14 to 0.51]	p = 0.0008	0.42 [0.23 to 0.58]	p< 0.0001
Erythrocyte mean corpuscular volume (fL)	0.04 [-0.10 to 0.18]	p = 0.5637	0.002 [-0.18 to 0.19]	p = 0.99	0.14 [-0.07 to 0.34]	p = 0.1774

Data are given as area of the Spearman rho with the [95% confidence interval].