Table 2. Correlation of erythropoietin plasma levels, with biological parameters.

	MM	NCM	CM	All
Hemoglobin
R	-0.42	-0.25	-0.35	-0.34
p-value	0.0421	0.1070	0.0118	0.0002
PfHRP-2
R	0.32	0.38	0.27	0.41
p-value	0.0922	0.0127	0.0419	< 0.0001
Hemopexin
R	-0.22	-0.41	-0.41	-0.44
p-value	0.2534	0.0069	0.0024	< 0.0001
Total heme
R	-0.04	0.03	0.30	0.17
p-value	0.8500	0.8532	0.0209	0.0526

R: Spearman coefficient of correlation.