Department of Laboratory Medicine, Desio Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca, Desio, Italy.
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Values are presented as median (5th–95th percentile) or mean±standard deviation.
MCV, mean corpuscular volume; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration.
aCases, anemic patients (hemoglobin ≤13.0 g/dL for men and ≤11.5 g/dL for women, ferritin level ≤17 ng/mL for men and ≤10 ng/mL for women, MCH ≤28 pg/cell, fasting blood glucose <100 mg/dL), bControls, non-anemic patients (hemoglobin >13.0 g/dL for men and >11.5 g/dL for women, MCH >28 pg/cell, ferritin level between 17 and 200 ng/mL, fasting blood glucose <100 mg/dL), cComparison between cases and controls data was made by Student t-test. A P value of ≤0.05 was considered statistically significant.