Demographic, clinical, laboratory and histological data as well as hepatic hepcidin mRNA and serum hepcidin levels of patients and healthy controls.

<p>Demographic, clinical, laboratory and histological data as well as hepatic hepcidin mRNA and serum hepcidin levels of patients and healthy controls.</p

Correlations between liver hepcidin mRNA, serum hepcidin, ferritin and clinical characteristics of patients.

<p>NA: not applicable.</p><p>Correlations between liver hepcidin mRNA, serum hepcidin, ferritin and clinical characteristics of patients.</p

Correlations between liver histology, hepcidin and ferritin in all patients.

<p>Values are expressed as the median and IQR.</p><p>Correlations between liver histology, hepcidin and ferritin in all patients.</p

Liver hepcidin mRNA and serum hepcidin levels in various liver diseases.

<p>Liver hepcidin mRNA (A), serum hepcidin levels (ng/ml) (B), liver hepcidin mRNA/log ratio (C) and serum hepcidin/log ferritin ratio (D) in the studied groups. Graphs depict the median (line within the box), 25^th to 70^th percentiles (upper and lower border of the box), and 10^th to 90^th percentiles (whiskers). <i>P</i> values calculated using Kruskal-Wallis t test, following Mann-Whitney U test for comparisons between groups.</p