Table 2.

Pretreatment and post treatment levels in iron deficient pregnant females

Parameters	Pretreatment	Post treatment	p value
Hemoglobin (g/dl)	8.16 ± 1.15	9.25 ± 1.13	0.001
S. iron (µg/dl)	52.22 ± 32.68	112.79 ± 52.63	0.001
S. ferritin (ng/dl)	5.68 ± 3.00	22.73 ± 16.76	0.001
S. hepcidin (ng/dl)	2.27 ± 1.2	4.89 ± 3.01	0.001

Data are shown as mean ± SD. Serum iron, serum ferritin, serum hepcidin