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Prospective pancreatic MRI data was obtained from 22 control subjects. Informed consent was obtained for these patients (CCI#2000-076). 429 MRI studies (169 SCD and 260 TM) suitable for analysis were identified from 100 SCD and 131 TM patients. Data from the thalassaemia major patients and control subjects has been previously reported (Noetzli et?al, 2009). MRI acquisition and analysis methods for the liver, heart, and pancreas have been previously described (Wood et?al, 2005a; Ghugre et?al, 2006b). Cardiac and pancreas R2*, equal to 1000/T2*, http://www.selleck.cn/products/Verteporfin(Visudyne).html was used for all statistical comparisons because R2* is proportional to tissue iron (Ghugre et?al, 2006a; Wood et?al, 2005b). All MRI values were inversely weighted by the number of exams such that each patient contributed equally to correlation and group-wise analyses. Difference among the three study groups (TM, SCD, and controls) was assessed using Analysis of Variance with Dunnett��s post hoc correction. Weighted least-squares linear regression was used to assess the linear associations between liver iron concentration (LIC), pancreatic R2* and cardiac R2*. Weighted logistic regression with respect to age was performed to determine the time-varying prevalence of cardiac and pancreatic http://www.selleckchem.com/products/ch5424802.html iron loading. All statistics were performed in jmp 5.1 (SAS, Cary, NC, USA). Demographics of the study populations are summarized in Table?I. TM patients were an average of 6��3?years older (P? http://www.selleckchem.com/products/VX-770.html On average, TM patients started transfusions 5��5?years earlier than SCD patients (3��6?��?5��9 vs. 9��1?��?5��6?years, P?��?0��0001), respectively. Accurate transfusional data was available only for 35 patients in each group. Median annual transfusion load was 199��3?ml/kg/year and 168��5?ml/kg/year for TM and SCD patients, respectively (P?