TF and anemia (phenotype): The prevalence of anaemia was 46.4% in advanced CKD, including 16.6% who had low transferrin levels, while 25.9% of the patients with early CKD had anaemia, advanced CKD was 2.9 times more prevalent if a patient had anemia and 2.4 times more prevalent if a patient had low transferrin, similar to other studies [20, 21, 50].