Iron Status and Systemic Inflammation, but Not Gut Inflammation, Strongly Predict Gender-Specific Concentrations of Serum Hepcidin in Infants in Rural Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Jaeggi, Tanja ^a   Moretti, Diego ^a   Kvalsvig, Jane ^b   Holding, Penny A ^c   Tjalsma, Harold ^d,e   Kortman, Guus A M ^d   Joosten, Irma ^d   Mwangi, Alice ^f   Zimmermann, Michael B ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c International Centre for Behavioural Studies   (Kenya)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Hepcidinanalysiscom   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN; FERRITIN; HEPCIDIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROTOPORPHYRIN ZINC; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

AFRICA; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENDER; GEOMETRY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KENYA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REFERENCE VALUE; RURAL AREA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CYTOKINES; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEPCIDINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRON; KENYA; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84874547339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057513     Document Type: Article

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