Table 4. Area under the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve of iron biomarkers for diagnosis of iron overload (LIC > 50 micromol/g) in 212 hemodialysis patients studied by hepatic MRI.

	Overall Cohort (n°1 + n°2)(n = 212)
Serum iron (micromol/L)	0.556 [0.466 to 0.645] p = 0.223
Serum Transferrin (g/L)	0.703 [0.623 to 0.783] p< 0.0001
Serum Ferritin (microg/L)	0.767 [0.698 to 0.835] p< 0.0001
TSAT (%)	0.634 [0.552 to 0.715] p = 0.001
Serum soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) (mg/L)	0.545 [0.455 to 0.636] p = 0.327
sTfR/Ferritin ratio	0.709 [0.629 to 0.789] p< 0.0001
Serum Hepcidin (ng/mL)	0.710 [0.631 to 0.789] p< 0.0001
Erythrocyte mean corposcular Volume (fL)	0.556 [0.464 to 0.648] p = 0.233

Data are given as area of the ROC curve with the [95% confidence interval].