INTRODUCTION Inadequate nutrition has a severe impact on health in India. According to the WHO, iron deficiency is the single most important nutritional risk factor in India, accounting for more than 3% of all disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost. We estimate the social costs of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in 6-59-month-old children in India in terms of intangible costs and production l...

We evaluated the combination of two indices of red blood cell count (RBC) and red blood cell distribution with index (RDWI) and extrapolated HbA2 values in differential diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and beta-thalassemia traits (BTT) associated with IDA. A total 129 subjects were included in this study. RBC/RDWI was able to diagnose 32% beta-thalassemia with iron deficiency while 66%...

Endoscopic gastrointestinal workup fails to establish the cause of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in a substantial proportion of patients. In patients referred for hematologic evaluation with unexplained or refractory IDA, screening for celiac disease, autoimmune gastritis, Helicobacter pylori, and hereditary forms of IDA is recommended. About 4% to 6% of patients with obscure refractory IDA have...

Event-related potentials (ERP) were assessed in 70 school-aged children with a diagnosis of asymptomatic iron deficiency anaemia (IDA), based on low haemoglobin and either low serum ferritin or high free erythrocyte protoporphyrin levels. The IDA subjects were randomized into treatment and placebo groups of 35 cases each, and compared with a normal control group of 30 age- and gender-matched he...

BACKGROUND The frequent need for blood transfusion in children with SCA creates the impression that IDA is rare in this class of children. OBJECTIVES The objective of the study is to determine the prevalence of IDA in a population of under-five children with SCA in Lagos, Nigeria. METHODOLOGY Serum iron, total iron binding capacity, transferrin saturation and serum ferritin were assayed in ...

BACKGROUND Iron deficiency Anemia (IDA) in children is a recognized public health problem that impacts adversely on child morbidity, mortality and impairs cognitive development. In Pakistan information on the true prevalence and predictors of IDA is limited. This study sought to investigate IDA in children under five years of age using data from a nationally representative stratified cross-sect...

PURPOSE A substantial proportion of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) present with iron deficiency anemia (IDA), and fecal immunochemical test (FIT) has proven to be an effective method for detecting the majority of CRC cases. A combination strategy of FIT results and IDA may be useful for risk stratification for detecting advanced colorectal neoplasia (ACRN). We compared the prevalence of ...

UNLABELLED Reactive gliosis involving activation and proliferation of astrocytes and microglia, is a widespread but largely complex and graded glial response to brain injury. Astroglial population has a previously underestimated high heterogeneity with cells differing in their morphology, gene expression profile, and response to injury. Here, we identified a subset of reactive astrocytes isolat...

We present the following results about IDA* and related algorithms: We show that IDA* is not asymptotically optimal in all of the cases where it was thought to be so. In particular, there are trees satisfying all of the conditions previously thought to guarantee asymptotic optimality for IDA*, such that IDA* will expand more than O(N) nodes, where N is the number of nodes eligible for expansion...