background iron and vitamin d inadequacy are both essential wellbeing issues, an extra advancement has been the vitamin d extra skeletal role. late collecting proof demonstrates that vitamin d inadequacy is pervasive in people with pallor, we meant to recognize a potential relationship between vitamin d lack and iron insufficiency. materials and methods a case control study was done in erbil, i...

Determination of serum ferritin is an important means of assessing body iron stores. Trace amounts of ferritin normally present in serum are detectable by sensitive radioimmunoassay techniques or an enzyme immunoassay procedure. Ferritin normally accounts for no more than a very small fraction of the total iron in serum, but generally maintains a stable concentration that is proportional to the...

It is now well established that the transport of iron in plasma is by a specific iron-binding P. globulin component of the plasma protein which has been isolated (Schade and Caroline, 1946). Holmberg and Laurell (1945) concluded that the amount of iron in normal plasma by no means attains the limit of saturation of the specific ironbinding protein. This saturation limit has been termed by Laure...

AIM Iron deficiency stimulates fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) transcription. This study aimed to determine whether oral ferrous iron (Fe2+ ) reduces the serum FGF23 levels of iron-deficient maintenance haemodialysis (MHD) patients in the same way as oral ferric iron (Fe3+ ) METHODS: Thirty-one MHD patients with iron deficiency were enrolled in this prospective study. Patients who had taken...

Chan, B. W. B. (1969). Brit. J. industr. Med., 26, 65-70. Serum iron and iron kinetics in coalworkers with complicated pneumoconiosis. Twenty-three patients with complicated pneumoconiosis were studied, and compared with 16 patients of similar age with chronic non-specific lung disease. In seropositive cases (Rose Waaler titre higher than 1: 32) the serum iron, total iron binding capacity (T.I....

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PURPOSE Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) is a truncated extracellular form of the membrane transferrin receptor produced by proteolysis. Concentrations of serum sTfR are related to iron status and erythropoiesis in the body. We investigated whether serum sTfR levels can aid in diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in children. METHODS Ninety-eight patients with IDA were e...

AIMS To determine whether nontransferrin bound iron is present in the serum of long term survivors of acute leukaemia and bone marrow transplantation who have liver dysfunction as indicated by consistently raised serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activities. METHODS Thirty eight patients, who were at least three years from the end of treatment, were studied. Serum samples were analysed f...

BACKGROUND Recently, hepcidin expression in adipose tissue has been described and shown to be increased in patients with severe obesity. We tried to assess the effect of obesity on hepcidin serum levels and treatment outcome of iron deficiency anemia in children. METHODS This was a case control study included 70 children with iron deficiency anemia "IDA" (35 obese and 35 non-obese) and 30 hea...

We attempted to clarify the storage iron metabolism from the change in the serum ferritin level. We assumed that the nonlinear decrease in serum ferritin was caused by serum ferritin increase in iron mobilization. Under this assumption, we determined both ferritin and hemosiderin iron levels by computer-assisted simulation of the row of decreasing assay-dots of serum ferritin in 11 patients wit...