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Serum hepcidin levels, iron status, and HFE gene alterations during the first year of life in healthy Spanish infants.
Annals of hematology - 1 Jun 2018
Aranda Nuria, Bedmar Cristina, Arija Victoria, Jardí Cristina, Jimenez-Feijoo Rosa, Ferré Natalia, Tous Monica
Abstract excerpt
The aims of this study were to describe hepcidin levels and to assess their associations with iron status and the main variants in the HFE gene in healthy and full-term newborns during the first year of life, as a longitudinal study conducted on 140 infants. Anthropometric and biochemical parameters, hepcidin, hemoglobin (Hb), serum ferritin (SF), transferrin saturation (TS), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), and...
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