Table 3. Correlation between serum hepcidin values and laboratory and demographic variables in thalassemia patients.

Group	Serum ferritin (ng/ml)		Hb (g/dl)		Age (y)		LPI (μM)		Number of blood transfusion units
	rs	P-value	rs	P-value	rs	P-value	rs	P-value	rs	P-value
BTM	−0.141	0.602	−0.007	0.978	−0.186	0.491	−0.106	0.696	−0.115	0.670
BE	0.065	0.739	−0.308	0.104	−0.148	0.442	−0.020	0.917	0.084	0.663
Thalassemia Hb H+ AE Bart’s	−0.016	0.953	0.057	0.834	−0.346	0.189	0.034	0.901	−0.393	0.132

Abbreviation: r_s, Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient.