Distribution of variables in 21 patients (12 males, 9 females) participating in iron regulatory study.

M, males; F, female; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; n/a, not appropriate.†indicates p value on separate addition to final model for hepcidin, once adjusted for ferritin and ferritin2.‡For the control group reported in [63] the geometric mean was 0.68 (95% confidence intervals 0.41, 0.96). In contrast, Piperno et al reported upper 95% confidence intervals of the means for hemachromatosis heterozygotes and homozygotes as [63].