Article
Iron disorders can mimic anything, so always test for them.
Blood reviews - 1 Sept 1992
Herbert V
Abstract excerpt
Routinely measuring iron status is necessary because not only are about 6% of Americans in significant negative iron balance, but about 1% have iron overload. Serum ferritin is in equilibrium with body iron stores, and is the only blood test that measures them. Barring inflammation, each one ng (...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Anemia, Hypochromic
- Ascorbic Acid
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Female
- Ferritins
- Folic Acid Deficiency
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- HLA-A3 Antigen
- Hemochromatosis
- Humans
- Incidence
- Infant
- Inflammation