BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy, safety and tolerability of intravenous iron sucrose with that of oral ferrous fumarate in iron deficiency anemia during 14 to 34 weeks of pregnancy. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was performed involving 112 patients attending the antenatal clinic at Shri B.M.Patil Medical college Hospital, Bijapur from October 2011 to...

Intestinal absorption of non-heme food iron may be inhibited by tea, which, on the contrary, does not exert any appreciable effect on heme iron assimilation. Therefore, while an iron-deficiency anemia cannot develop in non-vegetarian subjects as a consequence of tea consumption only, it is possible that tea could inhibit the therapeutic effect of oral iron drugs, which are usually non-hemic fer...

In the marine teleost intestine the secretion of bicarbonate increases pH of the lumen (pH 8.4 -9.0) and importantly reduces Ca2+ and Mg2+ concentrations by the formation of insoluble divalent ion carbonates. The alkaline intestinal environment could potentially also cause essential metal carbonate formation reducing bioavailability. Iron accumulation was assessed in the Gulf toadfish (Opsanus ...

AIMS To compare iron fortified follow-on milk (iron follow-on), iron fortified partially modified cows' milk (iron milk), and iron medicine for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in hospitalised infants. METHODS In a randomised controlled trial, infants aged 9-23 months with IDA and who were hospitalised with an acute illness received iron follow-on (12 mg/l ferrous iron), iron mi...

Refractory clay tiles are composed of kaolin, which is the commercial name of clay, and this consists mainly of kaolinite mineral. Two such tiles and caowool packed in glass columns were used for the immobilization of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans cells in a ferrous iron medium, which was percolated through the supports. Colonization was carried out by several media replacements with no furthe...

background: this study aimed to investigate different methods used to provide necessary supplementations for pregnant women and obtain reliable data about the general status of health promotion during pregnancy. methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 401 pregnant women referring to different women’s hospitals of tabriz, including alzahra, taleghani, 29-bahman, zakariy...

Although iron and zinc deficiencies are known to occur together and also appear to be high in Ghana, a few supplementation studies addressed this concurrently in pregnancy. In a double-blind, randomized controlled trial, 600 pregnant women in Ghana were randomly assigned to receive either a combined supplement of 40 mg of zinc as zinc gluconate and 40 mg of iron as ferrous sulphate or 40 mg of ...

Methanogenesis, the microbial methane (CH4 ) production, is traditionally thought to anchor the mineralization of organic matter as the ultimate respiratory process in deep sediments, despite the presence of oxidized mineral phases, such as iron oxides. This process is carried out by archaea that have also been shown to be capable of reducing iron in high levels of electron donors such as hydro...

Iron deficiency is one of the most prevalent nutritional problems in the world. Iron compounds are sed for the prevention and treatment of this deficiency. A double-blind randomized crossover study ith 12 volunteers was carried out to compare the effect of three iron compounds, ferrous glycine helate (GLY), ferric EDTA (EDTA), and ferrous sulfate (FS) on serum iron, and to examine serial erum i...