A prospective observational study of iron isomaltoside in haemodialysis patients with chronic kidney disease treated for iron deficiency (DINO)

Table 4 Frequency of metallic taste

	Retrospective IS phase	Prospective IIM phases
	0–3 months	0–3 months	3–6 months	6–9 months	9–12 months
	n = 198	n = 198	n = 172	n = 157	n = 152
Patients with metallic taste, n (%)	67 (33.8)	1^a (0.5)	0 (0.0)	1^a (0.6)	0 (0.0)
p-value^b		< 0.0001	NA	< 0.0001	NA

^aSame patient
^bP-value obtained from McNemar test by comparison to the retrospective IS phase
IIM iron isomaltoside, IS iron sucrose, NA not applicable, n number of patients

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