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The Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia [PDF]

Blood, 1955
Abstract In the normal individual the amount of iron absorbed and lost from the body each day is exceedingly small. There are certain periods during life when body iron requirements are increased; the most important of these is infancy. Here, existing iron stores are rapidly depleted, and a deficient diet can soon produce iron deficiency.
D H, COLEMAN, A R, STEVENS, C A, FINCH
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The prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Its Anemia in 1-5 Years Old Children and Their Mothers in Birjand City [PDF]

Journal of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, 2013
Background ;Objective: Micronutrient deficiencies are the most common nutritional disorders in the world in which iron deficiency is the most important one.
Azita Fesharakinia
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The Significance of Serum Transferrin Receptor Levels in the Diagnosis of the Coexistence of Anemia of Chronic Disease and Iron Deficiency Anemia

Eurasian Journal of Medicine, 2019
Objective: Iron deficiency anemia is the most common cause of microcytic anemia throughout the world. Ferritin levels are good indicators of iron stores; however, levels may increase irrespective of iron stores in cases of chronic disease.
Osman Yokus, Bilal Yilmaz, Murat Albayrak, Ozlem Sahin Balcik, Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Engin Sennaroglu   +5 more
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Iron deficiency anemia

Hematology, 2013
Iron is an essential mineral for oxygen transport and energy production. Increased requirements, as with pregnancy, or inadequate dietary intake of iron may lead to varying degrees of depletion. If iron depletion is severe, iron deficiency anemia (IDA) occurs.
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Ability of serum ferritin to diagnose iron deficiency anemia in an elderly cohort

Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
Background Diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency anemia in older subjects improves their quality of life. Serum ferritin as a marker of iron stores is an acute phase protein.
Mansour Babaei, Sajedeh Shafiei, Ali Bijani, Behzad Heidari, Seyed Reza Hosseyni, Mohsen Vakili Sadeghi   +5 more
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IRON DEFICIENCY AND IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA – A GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2016
Iron deficiency is defined as a condition in which there is not an adequate iron level necessary to maintain the normal physiologic functions. Having the magnitude of epidemics, anemia is a global public health problem, which affects both the emerging ...
Laura Florescu, Oana-Raluca Temneanu, Nicolai Nistor, Dana Elena Mindru   +3 more
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IRON DEFICIENCY AND IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA

The Bulletin of Contemporary Clinical Medicine, 2010
Prevalence of iron defi ciency, physiologic role of iron in the organism, modern laboratory markers of iron kinetics, biochemical markers of iron defi ciency, classifi cation and clinical picture of iron defi ciency anemia, instrumental diagnostics, management of anemia according to severity and optimal schemes of prophylaxis are described in the ...
Nail' A. Andreichev, Larisa V. Baleyeva
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Helicobacter pylori associated to unexplained or refractory iron deficiency anemia: an Egyptian single-center experience

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy, 2018
Background: Refractory or unexplained iron deficiency anemia accounts for about 15% of all cases. The endoscopic gastrointestinal workup sometimes fails to establish the cause of iron deficiency anemia and a considerable proportion of patients regardless
Doaa M. El Demerdash, Heba Ibrahim, Dina M. Hassan, Heba Moustafa, Nehad M. Tawfik   +4 more
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Iron refractory iron deficiency anemia

Haematologica, 2013
Iron refractory iron deficiency anemia is a hereditary recessive anemia due to a defect in the TMPRSS6 gene encoding Matriptase-2. This protein is a transmembrane serine protease that plays an essential role in down-regulating hepcidin, the key regulator of iron homeostasis.
De Falco, Luigia, Sanchez, Mayka, Silvestri, Laura, Kannengiesser, Caroline, Muckenthaler, Martina U., Iolascon, Achille, Gouya, Laurent, Camaschella, Clara, Beaumont, Carole   +8 more
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Iron-Refractory Iron Deficiency Anemia

Turkish Journal of Hematology, 2015
Iron is essential for life because it is indispensable for several biological reactions, such as oxygen transport, DNA synthesis, and cell proliferation. Over the past few years, our understanding of iron metabolism and its regulation has changed dramatically.
Keskin, Ebru Yilmaz, Yenicesu, Idil
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