Revaluation of clinical and histological criteria for diagnosis of dysmetabolic iron overload syndrome

Table 2 Correlation between total iron score (TIS) and several parameters in HIO patients

	r	P
Hepatocytic iron score	0.94	< 0.0001
Sinusoidal iron score	0.54	< 0.0001
Portal iron score	0.58	< 0.0001
Serum ferritin (μg/L)	0.53	< 0.0001
Transferrin saturation (%)	0.43	< 0.0001
Age (yr)	0.23	0.04
Hepatic fibrosis	0.28	0.012
Body mass index (kg/m2)	-0.48	< 0.0001
Degree of hepatic steatosis	-0.53	< 0.0001
No. of components of MS	-0.33	0.0026
HOMA index	-0.3	0.0125

Degree of hepatic steatosis refers to the percentage of hepatocytes involved by steatosis. Hepatic fibrosis refers to Ishak’s score.