Anaemia in elderly patients

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-109

  Andrés, Emmanuel ^a   Mecili, Mustapha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; MALABSORPTION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PREVALENCE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FOLIC ACID; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 78751506170     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2010.0028-10     Document Type: Letter

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