Effect of Maternal Iron Deficiency Anemia on the Iron Store of Newborns in Ethiopia

Table 4

Spearman’s correlation coefficients () comparing hematological profile and ferritin status of mothers and their respective newborns at St. Paul’s Hospital, Addis Ababa ().

Newborns parameters	Mother’s parameters ( value)
	Hgb	MCV	MCH	MCHC	RDW	Ferritin
Hgb	0.22^a	0.09	0.23^a	0.35^c	−0.00	0.28^b
MCV	0.06	−0.03	−0.03	−0.05	−0.08	0.12
MCH	0.15	0.02	0.09	0.14	−0.06	0.10
MCHC	0.16	0.24^a	0.31^b	0.39^c	−0.02	0.04
RDW	−0.01	−0.19	−0.16	0.04	0.03	0.01
Ferritin	0.25^a	0.10	0.13	0.11	−0.21	0.38^c

Hgb = hemoglobin; MCV = mean cell volume; MCH = mean cell hemoglobin; MCHC = mean cell hemoglobin concentration; RDW = red cell distribution width. ^a value < 0.05, ^b value < 0.01, and ^c value < 0.001.