Iron deficiency anemia in the elderly: Prevalence and endoscopic evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract in outpatients

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-28

  Çoban, Erkan ^a   Timuraǧaoǧlu, Ayşen ^a   Meriç, Mehmet ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anemia; Elderly; Gastrointestinal malignancy; Iron deficiency

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADENOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLON CANCER; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DUODENUM ULCER; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH POLYP; STOMACH ULCER; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COLONOSCOPY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; OUTPATIENTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 17444443582     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072410     Document Type: Article

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