Reduced Transferrin Levels in Active Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Table 2

Correlation between transferrin levels in IBD patients and inflammatory indices.

	Crohn’s disease	Ulcerative colitis
hsCRP	,	,
ESR	NS	,
WBC	,	,
PLT	,	,
IL-1	,	NS
IL-6	,	,
IL-10	NS	,
TNF-α	NS	1,

in active disease; NS: not significant; : Pearson correlation coefficient; : Spearman correlation coefficient; hsCRP: high sensitive CRP; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; WBC: white blood cells; PLT: platelets; IL: interleukin; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor-.