Reticulocyte hemoglobin content testing for iron deficiency in healthy toddlers

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-95

  Kuehn, Devon ^a   Roberts, Stephen S ^a   Olsen, Cara H ^a   Harvey, Danielle N ^b   Charnock, Kathryn M ^c   Brewer, Brian D ^c   Maliakel, Paul G ^b   Lopreiato, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETICULOCYTE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARYLAND; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETICULOCYTES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84855679061     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00243     Document Type: Article

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