compared to patients with normal or low serum ferritin levels ( group i ) , we found a significantly higher rate of bacterial infection among patients in group ii compared with group i ( 0.18 vs. 0.34 infections per patient-therapy-year , p less than 0.05 ) and group iii compared with group i ( 0.18 vs. 0.58 infections per patient-therapy-year , p less than 0.01 ) .
C0004623
bacterial infection
C3714514
infections