Background: Iron deficiency is the most common single-nutrient deficiency disease in the world and is a major concern for about 15% of the world population.  It has been shown that iron deficiency may affect thyroid hormones. Objective: To determine thyroid hormone status in iron deficient adolescent girls. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Lar Province and its’ vicinity in So...

Iron deficiency anemia is extremely common, particularly in the developing world, reaching a state of global epidemic. Iron deficiency during pregnancy is one of the leading causes of anemia in infants and young children. Many women go through the entire pregnancy without attaining the minimum required intake of iron. This review aims to determine the impact of maternal iron deficiency and iron...

n Both iron deficiency and iron excess have significant health consequences. A diet insufficient in bioavailable iron and blood loss are the major causes of iron deficiency worldwide. An improved intake of bioavailable iron can prevent the long-term consequences of nutritional iron deficiency. Iron indicators are needed to identify population groups at risk for nutritional iron deficiency and t...

Background: Approximately 1.62 billion people worldwide suffer from anemia, and about half of all anemia can result iron deficiency. Adolescence is also considered the golden time for interventions to control anemia. It right create a nutritional foundation labor child in future. Nutrition education schools has been shown be effective improving young people's knowledge, attitudes, practices reg...

introduction of disorders directly related to prevalence cardiovascular diseases are iron deficiency anemia and obesity, especially that of abdomen. the purpose of the current study has been determining the relationship between anthropometric including body mass index and the size of abdomen and iron-shortage anemia .the studies conducted in the area are very limited.                           ...

background: lack of nutritional knowledge is one of the most important reasons of nutritional problems and consequently im­proper practice, which can lead to several complications. this study has been designed in order to compare knowledge, at­ti­tude and practices of the urban and rural households regarding iron deficiency anemia (ida) in boushehr, golestan and sis­tan & balouchestan provinces...

We are grateful to Schindhelm et al. (1) for their interest in our article. WemeasuredHbA1cduring followupof a birth cohort in the hope of substituting it for an oral glucose tolerance test. We found a discrepancy between the results of the oral glucose tolerance test (World Health Organization, 1999) and HbA1c (American Diabetes Association, 2009): A large number of individuals were classified...