background: lead toxicity has been reported to affect hematopoietic, nervous, reproductive, cardiovascular and urinary tract systems. many investigators have so far studied the effects of high blood lead levels on pregnancy outcomes. objective: to investigate the effects of elevated maternal blood lead during pregnancy on some trace elements and pregnancy outcomes. methods: blood lead and plasm...

OBJECTIVE To study iron status at different gestational ages using cord blood serum transferrin receptors (STfRs). METHODS STfRs, iron, ferritin, total iron binding capacity, haemoglobin, and reticulocytes were measured in 144 cord blood samples. The babies were divided into three groups according to gestation (26 very preterm (24-29 weeks); 50 preterm (30-36 weeks); 68 term (37-41 weeks)). ...

AIMS To assess histologically the amount of iron deposited in liver biopsy specimens from HIV positive patients; and to perform estimations of liver iron on tissue from patients with an increase in parenchymal stainable iron. To correlate the amount of blood transfused and the degree of iron overload. METHODS Liver biopsy specimens (n = 120) from 109 HIV positive patients, 74 of whom had AIDS...

background: thalassemia is a chronic, inherited blood disorder, which in its most severe form, causes life-threatening anemia. thalassemia patients not only engage with difficulties of blood transfusion and iron chelating therapy but also have some social challenges and health threatening factors. there are some reports on quality of life in thalassemia patients around the world from southeast ...

"Free" iron, a potentially radical-generating low mass iron, and not found in normal human blood, was increased in the serum of blood-transfused thalassemia major patients seen in the Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). The low mass iron was detected by the bleomycin assay. Fifty-one blood samples were analyzed (from 28 males and 23 females). High "free" iron was detected in 47 se...

Background: Iron deficiency anemia is one of the most prevalent anemia in children and pregnant women in the world. It has recently been revealed that H.pylori infection is one the most important causes of anemia. Materials and Methods: In this analytical study 100 anemic children were analyzed using total Iron, Ferritin, TIBC and H.pylori IgG assay. Data were collected using a questionnaire in...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine the relationship between blood viscosity and iron deficiency and their impact on symptoms and exercise function in adults with cyanotic congenital heart disease. BACKGROUND Iron deficiency is believed to raise whole blood viscosity in cyanotic congenital heart disease, although available data are inconsistent. METHODS Thirty-nine cyanotic adults wer...

During t.he course of an investigation involving the determination of blood iron values in normal subjects, it became evident that t.he results were consistently higher than the figures recently reported for human blood by Murphy, Lynch, and Howard (1) and Reich and Tiedemann (2). Furt,hermore, hemoglobin values calculat,ed on the basis of their iron determinations differed considerably from va...

Iron deficiency affects approximately one-third of the world's population, occurring most frequently in children aged 6 months to 3 years. Mechanisms of iron absorption are similar to those of other divalent metals, particularly manganese, lead, and cadmium, and a diet deficient in iron can lead to excess absorption of manganese, lead, and cadmium. Iron deficiency may lead to cognitive impairme...

Iron deficiency (ID) has been reported to increase lead absorption. This relationship has been investigated in detail in children but not in adults. This study was designed to investigate whether blood lead levels are significantly higher in iron-deficient adults. ID-parameters (haemoglobin, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular haemoglobin, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity, iron-bin...