Iron status markers in 224 indigenous Greenlanders: Influence of age, residence and traditional foods

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 115-125

  Milman, Nils ^a   Byg, Keld Erik ^a   Mulvad, Gert ^b   Pedersen, Henning Sloth ^b   Bjerregaard, Peter ^c  

^a NAESTVED HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Primary Health Care Clinic   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anemia; Denmark; Diet; Eskimo; Ferritin; Greenland; Hemoglobins; Iron; Iron overload; Iron deficiency anemia; Men; Transferrin; Women

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENLAND; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIET; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GREENLAND; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSFERRIN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0035121387     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0609.2001.00312.x     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Iron nutrition and food iron fortification
2. Serum ferritin and the iron status of Canadians
3. Evaluation of the body iron status of native Canadians
4. Serum ferritin in a Greenlandic Inuit hunter population from the Thule District
5. Iron status markers in an East Greenlandic Inuit population from the Scoresbysund District
6. Cardiovascular risk factors in Inuit of Greenland
7. Regional variation in cardiovascular risk factors and ischemic heart disease mortality in Greenland
8. Statistical pitfalls in the comparison between two commercial serum ferritin kits, Pharmacia and Amersham
9. Calibration of the Amersham Ferritin RIA kit using the WHO human liver ferritin international standard 80/602
10. Iron deficiency: Definition and diagnosis
11. Laboratory determination of iron status
12. Serum ferritin in healthy Danes: Relation to marrow haemosiderin iron stores
13. Iron absorption in relation to iron status
14. Serum ferritin concentration and iron stores in normal subjects
15. Serum ferritin in Danes: Studies of iron status from infancy to old age, during blood donation and pregnancy
16. Iron status in Danes updated 1994. I: Prevalence of iron deficiency and iron overload in 1332 men aged 40-70 years. Influence of blood donation, alcohol intake, and iron supplementation
17. Iron status in Danes updated 1994. II: Prevalence of iron deficiency and iron overload in 1323 Danish women aged 40-70 years. Influence of blood donation, alcohol intake, and iron supplementation
18. Haemoglobin concentrations appear to be lower in indigenous Greenlanders than in Danes. Assessment of haemoglobin levels in 234 Greenlanders and in 2804 Danes
19. Relationship between serum ferritin, alcohol intake, and social status in 2235 Danish men and women
20. Contemporary use of traditional and imported food among Greenlandic Inuit
21. Metal levels in marine vertebrates
22. Iron stores in 469, 70-year-old Danish men and Women
23. Iron status in 1113 Danish men and women aged 35-65 years. Relation to dietary and supplemental iron intake
24. Elements in autopsy liver tissue samples from Greenlandic Inuit and Danes. II. Iron measured by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry
25. Indigenous Greenlanders have higher seroprevalences of IgG antibodies to Helicobacter pylori than Danes
26. Pervasive occult gastrointestinal bleeding in an Alaska native population with prevalent iron deficiency. Role of Helicobacter pylori gastritis
27. Dietary intakes among Siberian Yupiks of Alaska and implications for cardiovascular disease
28. Value of hepatic iron measurements in early hemochromatosis and determination of the critical iron level associated with fibrosis
29. Iron status markers, serum ferritin and hemoglobin in 1359 Danish women in relation to menstruation, hormonal contraception, parity and postmenopausal hormone treatment
30. Hereditary haemochromatosis. New diagnostic aspects
31. Determination of gene frequencies for two common haemochromatosis mutations in the Danish population by a novel polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific primers
32. A retro-spective anonymous pilot study in screening newborns for HFE mutations in Scandinavian populations
33. Relationship between serum ferritin and risk factors for ischaemic heart disease in 2235 Danes aged 30 to 60 years
34. Iron and the genetics of cardiovascular disease
35. Mortality from ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease in Greenland
36. n-3 fatty acids and cardiovascular disease - Observations generated by studies in Greenland Eskimos
37. Heterozygosity for a hereditary hemochromatosis gene is associated with cardiovascular death in women
38. Increased risk of acute myocardial infarction in carriers of the hemochromatosis gene Cys282Tyr mutation: A prospective cohort study in men in Eastern Finland
39. Iron absorption
40. Serum ferritin, iron status and plasma ascorbic acid in 40 to 49-year-old males in the Faroe Islands