Table 4 Correlation between serum ferritin and Morphological types of anaemia
Morphological type of anaemia | Serum ferritin levels | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Low | Normal | High | |
Microcytic hypochromic anaemia | 50 (90.9) | 24 (31.2) | 24 (22.4) |
Normocytic normochromic anaemia | 2 (3.6) | 29 (37.6) | 29 (27.1) |
Mixed hypochromic anaemia | 3 (5.5) | 8 (10.4) | 19 (17.8) |
Macrocytic normochromic anaemia | 0 (0.0) | 5 (6.5) | 18 (16.8) |
Mixed normochromic anaemia | 0 (0.0) | 8 (10.4) | 13 (12.2) |
Macrocytic hypochromic anaemia | 0 (0.0) | 3 (3.9) | 3 (2.8) |
Microcytic normochromic anaemia | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.9) |