Table 4.

Correlation of age with serum ferritin, LVEF, and T2* values of the heart and liver in patients with thalassemia major

First parameter	Second parameter	R	P-value
Age	Serum ferritin	0.343*	0.030
Age	Cardiac T2*MRI, ms	−0.217	0.179
Age	MIC mg/g/dry weight	0.292	0.068
Age	Hepatic T2 *MRI, ms	0.098	0.547
Age	LIC mg/g/dry weight	−0.120	0.463
Age	LVEF	0.027	0.867

Notes: *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Abbreviations: MIC, myocardial iron concentration; LIC, liver iron concentration; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; ms, milliseconds; LVEF, left ventricle ejection fraction.