Low ferritin levels indicate the need for iron supplementation: Strategy to minimize iron-depletion in regular blood donors

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 107-112

  Alvarez Ossorio, L ^a   Kirchner, H ^a   Kluter H ^a   Schlenke, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Blood donation; Ferritin; Haemoglobin; Iron deficiency

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GERMANY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY;

EID: 0034112802     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2000.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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