Assessing the Association between Serum Ferritin, Transferrin Saturation, and C-Reactive Protein in Northern Territory Indigenous Australian Patients with High Serum Ferritin on Maintenance Haemodialysis

Table 3

Bivariate association of ferritin and other factors using mixed methods.

Variable	Coefficient	value	95% confidence interval
Male	0.05	0.590	−0.36–1.12
Non-Indigenous	−50.70	<0.001	−65.60–−37.95
Haemoglobin	0.00	0.069	0.00–0.00
Potassium	0.10	0.115	−0.03–0.23
Albumin	0.00	0.981	−0.02–0.02
Corrected calcium	−0.09	0.768	−0.69–0.51
Phosphate	0.17	0.085	−0.02–0.37
Calcium phosphate product	0.09	0.068	−0.01–0.18
Parathyroid hormone	0.001	0.800	−0.01–0.01
CRP	0.001	0.546	−0.001–0.003
Urea reduction ratio	0.06	<0.001	0.03–0.09
KTV	2.38	0.024	0.31–4.46
Age at the last review date	−0.06	<0.001	−0.09–−0.03
Body mass index	−0.08	0.009	−0.14–−0.02
Weekly darbepoetin dose	0.00	0.989	−0.01–0.01
Weekly epoetin alfa dose	0.00	0.891	0.00–0.00

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