Is iron deficiency an underlying cause of pediatric restless legs syndrome and of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 693-694

  Picchietti, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON OVERLOAD; LIMB MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

EID: 35148847466     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.06.007     Document Type: Editorial

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