Iron supplementation group (N = 15) | NYT group (N = 15) | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre-treatment | Post-treatment | P value | Pre-treatment | Post-treatment | P value | ||
Hemoglobin-g/dL | 9.9 ± 0.8 | 11.9 ± 1.6 | 0.0005 | 9.8 ± 1.0 | 12.0 ± 1.0 | 0.0001 | |
Hematocrit-% | 32.3 ± 2.1 | 37.1 ± 4.3 | 0.001 | 32.7 ± 2.1 | 38.2 ± 3.3 | 0.0002 | |
Median serum iron level (IQR)-µg/dL | 27 (14, 84) $ | 125 (88, 214)~ | 0.055 | 32 (15, 146) # | 100 (81, 205) | | 0.38 | |
Median ferritin (IQR)-ng/mL | 10 (5, 22) $ | 26 (16, 31) ~ | 0.063 | 4 (3, 10) # | 19 (10, 26) | | 0.0078 | |
CFS | |||||||
Physical | 5.9 ± 5.1 | 4.1 ± 4.1 | 0.23 | 7.1 ± 5.4 | 2.5 ± 2.4 | 0.0005 | |
Affective | 6.5 ± 3.0 | 6.5 ± 2.5 | 0.96 | 7.9 ± 4.1 | 4.9 ± 3.4 | 0.025 | |
Cognitive | 3.5 ± 3.7 | 2.0 ± 2.3 | 0.094 | 2.8 ± 2.8 | 0.7 ± 1.0 | 0.002 | |
Total | 15.9 ± 9.3 | 12.5 ± 6.5 | 0.1 | 17.9 ± 10.2 | 8.1 ± 5.2 | 0.0004 | |
Median VAS-A (IQR)-mm | 50 (8, 65) | 32 (13, 57) | 0.2 | 56 (50, 70) | 23 (6, 48) | 0.0009 | |
Median PSQI (IQR) | 4 (3, 5) | 4 (3, 6) | 1 | 5 (3, 7) | 4 (3, 5) | 0.15 |