Table 5.

Reported comorbidities in 240 TDT and NTDT married male patients or living-in relationship with a woman

Comorbidities	Total (240 patients)	TDT (185 patients)	NTDT (55 patients)	P value: TDT vs. NTDT
Splenectomy	128 (53.3%)	91 (49.1%)	37 (67.2%)	0.02
Osteopenia/Osteoporosis	120 (50%)	95 (51.3%)	25 (45.4%)	0.44
Cholelithiasis	108 (45.0%)	76 (41.0%)	32 (58.1%)	0.025
Cardiac complications	42 (17.5%)	33 (17.8%)	9 (16.3%)	0.8
Liver dysfunction	24 (10%)	21 (11.3%)	3 (5.4%)	0.2
Extramedullary hematopoiesis	20 (8.3%)	10 (5.4%)	10 (18.1%)	0.002
Kidney stones	12 (5%)	11 (5.9%)	1 (1.8%)	0.22
Pulmonary hypertension	11 (4.6%)	7 (3.7%)	4 (7.2%)	0.28
Renal complications	10 (4.2%)	10 (5.4%)	0 (0%)	0.08
Adrenal mass	3 (1.3%)	3 (1.6%)	0 (0%)	0.34