This statement is in complete accordance with iron and ferritin findings of the present study, where serum iron was found to be lower, while ferritin was found to be higher, both along with lower UIBC/TIBC and transferrin saturation % (Figure 2) confirming the type of anemia recorded in the present study is inflammatory anemia rather than iron deficiency anemia. This evidence concerns the gene TF and anemia (phenotype).