Iron deficiency anemia: A common and curable disease

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Miller, Jeffery L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEPCIDIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LIGATION; MALABSORPTION; MALARIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERINATAL CARE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; UMBILICAL CORD;

ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; CHILD; CONSTRICTION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEMORRHAGE; HEPCIDINS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IRON; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALARIA; MALE; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; TRANSFERRIN; UMBILICAL CORD; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84879753159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a011866     Document Type: Article

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