Table 4.
The iron physiological requirements of different data sources
| gender | data sourcea | n | mean body weight (kg) |
iron requirements (μg/d) | iron requirements adjusted by weight (μg/kg.d) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mean ± std | comparison of different data source | mean ± std | comparison of different data source | ||||||
| F | P | F | P | ||||||
| female | A | 3 | 49.98 ± 3.59 | 877.11 ± 352.09 | 2.37 | 0.209 | 17.59 ± 7.13 | 0.594 | 0.594 |
| B | 1 | 48.28 | 993.4 | 20.58 | |||||
| C | 3 | 59.28 ± 12.31 | 1362.34 ± 175.52 | 23.83 ± 6.9 | |||||
| male | B | 2 | 58.76 ± 0.14 | 846.65 ± 125.97 | 0.199 | 0.665 | 14.41 ± 2.11 | 0.018 | 0.896 |
| C | 10 | 69.1 ± 13.08 | 982.55 ± 412.39 | 13.97 ± 4.38 | |||||
aA: day 515 to day 767, B: day 605 to day 767, C: day 767 to day 1155