Does Thrombocyte Size Give Us an Idea about Thrombocytosis Etiology?

Table 5

The results of Pearson's correlation test in patients with reactive thrombocytosis (iron deficiency anemia).

Parameters	S Iron	UIBC	Ferritin	Hb	MCV	WBC	CRP
Platelet counts
𝑟	0.209	−0.230	0.135	−0.251	−0.069	−0.151	−0.089
𝑃	>0.05	>0.05	>0.05	>0.05	>0.05	>0.05	>0.05
Mean platelet volume
𝑟	−0.643	0.275	−0.503	−0.389	−0.583	−0.152	−0.208
𝑃	<0.01	>0.05	<0.01	<0.05	<0.01	>0.05	>0.05

S Iron: serum iron; UIBC: unsaturated iron-binding capacity; Hb: hemoglobin; MCV: mean corpuscular volume; WBC: white blood cell; CRP: C-reactive protein.