Efficiency of red cell distribution width in identification of children aged 1-3 years with iron deficiency anemia against traditional hematological markers

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sazawal, Sunil ^a,b,c   Dhingra, Usha ^b,c   Dhingra, Pratibha ^a,c   Dutta, Arup ^c   Shabir, Hiba ^c   Menon, Venugopal P ^a   Black, Robert E ^b  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Center for Public Health Kinetics   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Iron deficiency anemia; RDW; Receiver's operating characteristic curve; Red cell distribution width; ROC; Screening; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PROTOPORPHYRIN ZINC;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FLUOROMETER; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84892651100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-8     Document Type: Article

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