Research Article
Using Soluble Transferrin Receptor and Taking Inflammation into Account When Defining Serum Ferritin Cutoffs Improved the Diagnosis of Iron Deficiency in a Group of Canadian Preschool Inuit Children from Nunavik
Table 3
Prevalence of abnormal values for iron status indicators regardless of inflammation and C-reactive protein (CRP) in preschool Inuit children.
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SD: standard deviation; IQR: interquartile range. Hb: hemoglobin; MCV: mean corpuscular volume; MCHC: mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; SI: serum iron; TIBC: total iron binding capacity; TS: transferrin saturation; SF: serum ferritin; sTfR: soluble transferrin receptor; sTfR-FI: soluble transferrin receptor-ferritin index. Reference sources for the cutoffs were as follows: Hb [19]; MCV [20]; MCHC [21]; SI and TIBC [22, 23]; TS [14, 19, 23]; SF [6, 30]; sTfR [26]; sTfR-FI [18, 27–29]; CRP [7, 31–33]. |