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ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATION P-Value= 0.05 which is not significant. Table 6: Relation of Serum Ferritin With Impaired GT and normal GT for patients with thalassemia This table shows that 21.1% of patients had IGT at S. Ferritin < 5000 while 100% of them had IGT at S. Ferritin above 1000,this mean the risk of development IGT increase with increasing S. Ferritin, but serum ferritin was not risk factor, p-value not significant. P-Value= 0.019 which is not significant. Table 7: Relation of Units of blood transfusion/year with Impaired GT and Normal GT for patients with thalassemia Table 7 show 6.7% of patients with IGT received 9 units of blood/year, but it was not risk factor. 22 MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL OF FAMILY MEDICINE VOLUME 10 ISSUE 6 MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL OF FAMILY MEDICINE • VOLUME 7, ISSUE 10
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATION P-Value = 0.019 which is significant Table 8 Patient’s height centile shows: 38 patients (76%) below 3rd centile. Figure 1: Compliance of patients with desferrioxamine therapy Discussion In this study prevalence of IGT was 26% which is nearly similar to the study done by Hafez et al, in which prevalence was 24.1%,(18) while mean age of patients who had IGT was 13 years and with increasing age the possibility of development of impaired glucose tolerance increase (Table 4), but in our study age was not a risk factor for IGT which disagrees with the results of Najafipour (8) in which the mean age of those who had IGT was 18.5 years and age was a risk factor. This is may be due to our range of age being limited to
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