Studies in Iron Absorption
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P REVIOUS STUDIES showed that general systemic factors like the hemoglobin concentration, serum iron concentration, iron binding capacity, and the plasma iron clearance rate were not correlated to the intestinal iron absorption. Neither did parenteral iron treatment normalize high iron absorption.1 The purpose of the present study is to examine such local intestinal factors as the quantity and quality of the iron and of the food present in the intestinal lumen, and also the mucosal iron. Previous studies of, e.g., the absorption of iron from various foodstuffs have been reviewed.2’3
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