The iron status of a healthy South African adult population

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 460, Issue , 2016, Pages 240-245

  Phatlhane, Dineo V ^a   Zemlin, Annalise E ^a   Matsha, Tandi E ^b   Hoffmann, Mariza ^a   Naidoo, Nasheen ^a   Ichihara, Kitoshi ^d   Smit, Francois ^b,c   Erasmus, Rajiv T ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^b CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^c PathCare Laboratories Mediclinic Vergelegen   (South Africa)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Ferritin; Iron deficiency; Iron status

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PATIENT CODING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICAN; BLOOD; DEFICIENCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84979599447     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2016.06.019     Document Type: Article

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