Athletes and iron deficiency: Is it true anemia or "sports anemia"?

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Peterson, Daniel ^a  

^a Quello Clinic and Minnesota Sports Care in Burnsville and Savage   (United States)

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