Red blood cell distribution width and iron deficiency anemia among pregnant Sudanese women

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Abdelrahman, Esam G ^a   Gasim, Gasim I ^a,c   Musa, Imad R ^a,d   Elbashir, Leana M ^b,d   Adam, Ishag ^b,d  

^a Khartoum Teaching Hospital   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Buraidah Central Hospital ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Anemia; Pregnancy; Red cell distribution width; Sudan

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FERRITIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDAN;

ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84870292146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-7-168     Document Type: Article

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