| Parameters | Correlation coefficient | No. of bags |
| Serum iron | Pearson correlation | 0.884 |
| P value | 0.000 | |
| Serum ferritin | Pearson correlation | 0.441 |
| P value | 0.015 | |
| TIBC | Pearson correlation | −0.814 |
| P value | 0.000 |