Introduction Anaemia is frequent in critically ill patients. Iron deficiency, secondary to blood losses or prior to admission, is in part responsible for this anaemia. Iron may thus be proposed to critically ill patients (CI). However, iron may promote oxidative stress, which is potentially deleterious. In a mouse model, we previously demonstrated that iron induces less oxidative stress in infl...

Objective: To determine the status of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) and malnutrition in lactating women. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: Six urban slum communities in Teklehaimanot district, Addis Ababa. Subjects: One thousand and seventeen lactating women were enrolled and assessed for their haemoglobin (Hgb), serum ferritin level and body mass index (BMI) during the month of March 2...

Iron deficiency anaemia is the most common deficiency in women of child bearing age throughout the world and is even more common in pregnancy, as it might be expected from the increasing iron requirement. Approximately 95% cases of anaemia in pregnancy involve iron deficiency, which has deliterious effects and increases morbidity and mortality in mother as well as in the fetus. The aim of the s...

BACKGROUND The hookworms, Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, cause significant gastrointestinal blood loss. In clinical studies, greater blood losses have been reported with A. duodenale. However, there has been no evidence that endemic A. duodenale infection has greater impact than N. americanus infection on the iron status of populations. METHODS In a sample of 525 school childre...

The iron content of the body is normally closely regulated. Despite this, iron deficiency anaemia is common in women because iron losses due to menstruation and childbirth are not always compensated for by iron absorption from the diet. The role of transferrin in delivering iron to cells and of ferritin in storing iron within cells is well understood but the proteins involved in iron transport ...

BACKGROUND Iron deficiency anaemia is a worldwide health problem in which environmental, physiologic and genetic factors play important roles. The associations between iron status biomarkers and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) known to be related to iron metabolism were studied in menstruating women. METHODS A group of 270 Caucasian menstruating women, a population group at risk of iro...

OBJECTIVE To observe the effects of iron deficiency anaemia on the health and life of pregnant women. METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit IV, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro from 1st June 2015 to 30(th) November 2015, for the period of 6 months. During this study period all the pregnant women from 13-...

Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia remain as major health concerns for children in Bangladesh. Among the micronutrient interventions, supplementation with vitamin A to children aged less than five years has been the most successful, especially after distribution of vitamin A was combined with National Immunization Days. Although salt sold in Bangladesh is intended to contain iodine, much of...

Chandra, R. K. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 864. Reduced bactericidal capacity of polymorphs in iron deficiency. Intracellular bacterial killing by polymorphonuclear leucocytes and reduction of nitro-blue tetrazolium were defective in 12 children with iron deficiency anaemia. Opsonic activity of plasma and phagocytosis were normal. The abnormalities were corrected quickly by pa...