Table 3.

Correlation of serum hepcidin with ferritin and/or IL-6

Reference		Patient characteristics	Correlated with
			Ferritin	IL-6
Tomosugi et al.	[44]	HD patients (n = 40)	(+)	(−)
		Acute pyelonephritis (n = 2), pneumonia (n = 6), sepsis (n = 8)	NA	(+)
		Healthy volunteers (n = 16)	(+)	(−)
Weiss et al.	[45]	HD patients (n = 20)	(+)	(−)
Kuragano et al.	[46]	HD patients (n = 198)	(+)	(−)
		HD patients CRP >0.3 mg/dL (n = 36)	(+)	(+)
van der Putten et al.	[47]	CKD + heart failure (n = 33)	(+)	(−)
Stoffel et al.	[48]	Young women with iron deficiency + vaccination (n = 21)	NA	(−)
		Young women without iron deficiency + vaccination (n = 25)	NA	(+)

NA, not available.