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Distribution of iron overload among study subjects according to demographic and selected biological characteristics
| Iron Overload n (%) |
p-value | ||
| Age group (years) | 0.453 | ||
| ≤2 | 8 (16.7) | ||
| >2 – 5 | 12 (24.5) | ||
| Gender | 0.139 | ||
| Male | 7 (14.3) | ||
| Female | 13 (27.1) | ||
| History of | 0.599 | ||
| blood transfusionr | Yes | 8 (24.2) | |
| No | 12 (18.8) | ||
| 0.875 | |||
| Number of blood | 0 | 0 (0.0) | |
| transfusion | |||
| 1 | 7 (30.4) | ||
| 0.949 | |||
| >1 | 1 (10.0) | ||
| Socioeconomic strata | |||
| Lower | 3 (20.0) | ||
| Others | 17 (20.7) |
