Dog havde de to lægemidler samme virkning, når man specielt ser på de 381 patienter, der havde særlig højt indhold af jern i leveren ved undersøgelsens begyndelse og som havde fået Exjade eller deferoxamin i doser svarende til hinanden.
However, when looking at the 381 patients who had particularly high levels of iron in their liver at the beginning of the study and who received comparable amounts of Exjade or deferoxamine, the two medicines were as effective as each other.