Effect of oral iron therapy on the symptoms of anaemia.

In a study published elsewhere (Wood and Elwood, 1966) the associations between the severity of various symptoms and haemoglobin levels in subjects who took part in a community survey is described. The present paper describes a double-blind randomized clinical trial of the effects on these symptoms of oral iron therapy in a sample of the women seen during the community survey. In addition some limited data relating to a separate trial conducted in severely anaemic women identified in a hospital out-patient clinic are presented.