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. 2019 Mar 11;9:4069. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-40449-1

Table 2.

The association between dietary iron intake and NAFLD.

Dietary iron (mg/d) NAFLD patients controls t P
Total iron 22.05 ± 7.18 21.81 ± 7.08 1.16 0.245
Heme-iron 7.84 ± 4.11 7.24 ± 4.04 2.48 0.013
Non-heme iron 14.21 ± 6.00 14.0.57 ± 5.81 0.284 0.776

Data are represented as the mean ± SD and were analyzed using the student t-test.