Research article
Inflammation associated anemia and ferritin as disease markers in SLE
Division of Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX 75235, USA
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2012, 14:R182 doi:10.1186/ar4012
Published: 7 August 2012Additional files
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Figure S1. Correlation of serum and urine ferritin levels with inflammatory cytokine levels. Serum and urine ferritin levels determined by using a protein array were correlated with cytokine levels measured in the same assay. Urine ferritin levels correlated with IL-6 (R = 0.94, P < 0.001), TNF α (R = 0.71, P = 0.022), and IL-1α (P = 0.073). Serum ferritin levels showed weaker correlations with proinflammatory cytokine levels.
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