Anaemia in the elderly: An aetiologic profile of a prospective cohort of 95 hospitalised patients

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 524-528

  Petrosyan, Inessa ^a   Blaison, Gilles ^a   Andrès, Emmanuel ^b   Federici, Laure ^a  

^a Association pour le Depistage du Cancer Colorectal en Alsace   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Anaemia; Chronic renal failure; Elderly; Inflammation; Iron deficiency; Vitamin deficiency

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; IRON;

AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFLAMMATION; INPATIENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84864584113     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2012.03.013     Document Type: Article

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