Efficacy of daily versus intermittent administration of iron supplementation in anemia or blood indices during pregnancy

Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 569-573

  Alaoddolehei, Haydeh ^a   Samiei, Haydeh ^b   Sadighian, Farahnaz ^a   Kalantari, Narges ^a  

^a BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ferritin; Iron deficiency; Iron supplement; Pregnancy; Zinc

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; IRAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84872853886     PISSN: 20086164     EISSN: 20086172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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