Research Article
Iron Metabolism Disturbance in a French Cohort of ALS Patients
Table 3
Levels of biochemical compounds involved in iron metabolism according to disease status (means ± standard deviations).
| | Mean ± SD | ALS () | Controls () | value | for men
ALS
controls | for women
ALS
controls |
| | Serum iron (mol/L) | | | 0.002
*
| 0.033
*
| 0.013
*
| | Serum transferrin (g/L) | | | 0.407 | 0.573 | 0.546 | | TIBC (mol/L) | | | 0.370 | 0.485 | 0.543 | | TSC (%) | | | 0.017
*
| 0.151 | 0.041
*
| | Serum ferritin (g/L) | | | <0.0001
*
| 0.0001
*
| 0.041
*
|
|
|
Differences were considered significant at .
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