Low levels of serum ferritin and moderate transferrin saturation lead to adequate hemoglobin levels in hemodialysis patients, retrospective observational study

• Chie Ogawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Ogawa, Ken Tsuchiya, Teiryo Maeda

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tato.ogawa@gmail.com

  Affiliations Maeda Institute of Renal Research, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, Biomarker Society, INC, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Ken Tsuchiya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Ogawa, Ken Tsuchiya, Teiryo Maeda

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliations Biomarker Society, INC, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Blood Purification, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Naohisa Tomosugi ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Biomarker Society, INC, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, Division of Systems Bioscience for Drug Discovery, Project Research Center, Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan

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• Fumiyoshi Kanda ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Maeda Institute of Renal Research, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Kunimi Maeda,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliations Maeda Institute of Renal Research, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, Biomarker Society, INC, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Teiryo Maeda †

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Ogawa, Ken Tsuchiya, Teiryo Maeda

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Maeda Institute of Renal Research, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, Biomarker Society, INC, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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