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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Reticulocyte hemoglobin content: a new frontier in iron deficiency diagnostics for major surgical patients

 

Control

(n = 1500)

54.2%

IDA

(n = 412)

14.9%

ID

(n = 487)

17.6%

Others

(n = 370)

13.4%

Age (years)

66 (57; 73)

70.0 (61; 78)

64(55; 73)

70 (62; 77)

Gender (female)

360 (24%)

158 (38.3%)

221 (45.4%)

93 (25.1%)

Hb (g/dl)

14.5 (13.7; 15.2)

11.1 (9.9; 11.0)

13.7 (13.1; 14.6)

11.3 (10.1; 12.3)

MCV (fl)

88.2 (85.6; 91.1)

85.2 (79.5; 89.5)

86.7 (84.0; 89.3)

89.7 (85.6; 93.8)

MCH (pg)

30.4 (29.5; 31.6)

28.5 (25.7; 30.1)

29.4 (28.4; 30.6)

30.1 (28.7; 31.9)

Ret-He (pg)

35.4 (34.2; 36.5)

31.7 (27.8; 34.0)

33.8 (32.3; 35.1)

34.6 (32.4; 36.3)

Ferritin (ng/ml)

217.0 (116.0; 361.0)

62.0 (27.0; 130.0)

93.0 (39.0; 169.0)

405.5 (227.0; 692.8)

Transferrin saturation (%)

27.0 (23.5; 33.5)

11.8 (7.8; 17.3)

15.8 (12.8; 18.1)

23.9 (18.3; 31.4)

CRP (mg/dl)

0.2 (0.1; 0.4)

0.5 (0.2; 1.5)

0.4 (0.2; 0.9)

0.7 (0.2; 2.9)

  1. Hb hemoglobin, MCV mean corpuscular volume, MCH mean corpuscular hemoglobin, Ret-He Reticulocyte hemoglobin content, CRP C-reactive protein, median values are displayed