Table 3.

Correlation of hepcidin with variables

Variables	Hepcidin (ng/ml)
	r-valuea	p value
Hb (gm/dl)	− 0.80	< 0.0001*
Ferritin (ng/ml)	0.711	< 0.0001*
hs –CRP (mg/l)	0.526	< 0.0001*
ESR (mm/h)	0.735	< 0.0001*
Iron (µg/dl)	− 0.307	0.01*
TIBC (µg/dl)	− 0.553	< 0.0001*
%Saturation	0.0576	0.66
Transferrin (mg/dl)	− 0.584	< 0.0001*

^a‘r’-value is calculated by spearman correlation test

* p-value < 0.05 is consider as significant