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Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 4 Association of iron metabolism markers and other biochemical parameters with HCV infection

From: Malnutrition inflammation index in chronic haemodialysis patients with or without hepatitis C virus infection

Parametera

Mean ± SDb

P valuec

HCV-non-infected

HCV-infected

TIBC (μg/dL)

295.9 ± 6.7

292.6 ± 5.1

0.707

Serum transferrin

645.1 ± 78.6

457.3 ± 53.3

0.055

Albumin (g/dL)

3.7 ± 0.1

3.2 ± 0.1

0.0001

CRP (mg/L)

18.3 ± 2.8

22.9 ± 3.2

0.282

  1. aReference ranges: total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), 250–410 μg/dL; serum transferrin, 200–350 mg/dL; albumin, 3.5–5.5 g/dL; C-reactive protein (CRP), 5–10 mg/L
  2. bSD standard deviation
  3. cP value: P > 0.05 is non-significant and P < 0.05 is significant
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