Table 5.

Correlation analyses of ferroportin with clinical, nutritional data and iron status parameters in the obese and normal-weight groups.

Parameter	Obese	Children	Normal-Weight	Children
	r	p	r	p
BMI	−0.229	0.156	−0.074	0.652
Energy	0.067	0.678	−0.243	0.166
Dietary proteins (%)	−0.065	0.691	0.241	0.170
Dietary fat (%)	0.023	0.883	0.006	0.975
Dietary carbohydrates (%)	0.003	0.982	−0.147	0.407
Dietary iron	0.157	0.333	−0.421	0.013
Dietary vitamin C	−0.154	0.343	−0.430	0.011
Dietary vitamin B12	0.301	0.059	−0.366	0.033
Leptin	−0.263	0.102	−0.158	0.331
Proinsulin	−0.069	0.133	−0.010	0.540
Hepcidin	−0.040	0.805	0.151	0.353
sTfR	−0.051	0.756	0.068	0.677
Ferritin	0.071	0.664	0.150	0.356
Ferritin/Hepcidin	−0.143	0.379	−0.107	0.511
sTfR/Ferritin	−0.024	0.884	0.049	0.765
Iron	0.088	0.589	0.028	0.862
RBC	−0.206	0.200	−0.017	0.920
Hb	0.044	0.791	0.238	0.142
MCV	0.067	0.680	0.251	0.123
CRP	−0.260	0.105	0.108	0.508

BMI—body mass index, sTfR—soluble transferrin receptor, RBC—red blood cells, Hb—hemoglobin, MCV—mean corpuscular volume, CRP—C-reactive protein.