Strategies for the prevention and treatment of iron deficiency during pregnancy

Clinical Drug Investigation

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages 29-43

  Remacha, Angel F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; FERROUS SULFATE; FOLIC ACID; IRON; IRON DEXTRAN; IRON SACCHARATE; IRON SORBITEX; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; ZINC;

ANOREXIA; CONSTIPATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IRON ABSORPTION; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MATERNAL CARE; NAUSEA; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH PAIN; TASTE DISORDER; VOMITING; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0034074108     PISSN: 11732563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00044011-200019001-00004     Document Type: Review

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