Relationship Between Endocrinopathies and Ferritin Levels in Adult Turkish Patients with Beta Thalassemia Major: A Single-Center Experience
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Gülsüm Akgun Çağlıyan; Güzin Fidan Yaylalı; Nur Soyer; Sibel Hacıoğlu; Ömer Çağlıyan; Nil Güler
- Source
- Erciyes Medical Journal, Vol 43, Iss 1, Pp 37-42 (2020)
- Subject
- thalassemia
adult
endocrinopathy
ferritin
Medicine (General)
R5-920
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2149-2247
Objective: Despite regular transfusions and iron-chelation therapies, endocrine complications still remain an important cause of morbidity in patients with beta thalassemia major (BTM). We aimed to evaluate the relationship between endocrine complications and serum ferritin levels in adult patients with BTM. Materials and Methods: The endocrine test results of adult patients with BTM were retrospectively reviewed. Normality testing was performed using the Shapiro–Wilk test. For the analysis, we used an independent samples t-test when parametric test assumptions were met; otherwise we used Mann–Whitney U test. A p value of