OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine the prevalence of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia among exclusively breastfed infants from one to six months of life and to identify associated risk factors. METHODS This is a cohort study of the hemoglobin and serum ferritin levels of 102 healthy full-term infants, weighing more than 2500 grams (5.5 pounds) at birth, evaluated for growth de...

One of the most common nutritional deficiencies worldwide is iron deficiency. Fatigue, pallor, vertigo, dyspnea, cold intolerance, lethargy, palpitation, headache, and pallor mucous membranes or nail beds are frequent symptoms signs Thrombocytosis commonly observed in deficiency anemia; it seems that erythropoietin plays main role this respect. Furthermore, thrombocytopenia even leukopenia have...

Background: Anemia has a very high prevalence across the world. Microcytic anemia is the most common nutritional disorder and a major health problem in infants and children associated with inadequate growth and development. Diagnosing anemia at the birth can be difficult. Due to the fact that conditions such as thalassemia and iron deficiency are causative factors of microcytic anemia are preva...

Background Prevalence of iron deficiency among children under five years old in Afghanistan is about 44.2%. The current study was aimed at the psychometric analysis of iron-deficiency anemia prevention scale among a sample of mothers who had female primary school children in Kabul, Afghanistan. Materials and Methods This cros...

Bariatric surgery for morbid obesity is rapidly gaining popularity. Restrictive and/or malabsorptive surgical interventions result in dramatic weight loss with significantly decreased obesity-related morbidity and mortality. Anemia, which may affect as many as two-thirds of these patients, is of concern and generally thought to be caused by iron deficiency. Although iron deficiency in this popu...

objective: iron deficiency anemia is among the most common types of childhood anemia. according to the world health organization, approximately 5 billion people were suffering from iron deficiency anemia worldwide in 2001. aside from causing anemia, iron deficiency can negatively affect the physical and mental development of children and adolescents. several studies have discussed the consequen...

objective: the two most frequent hypochromic microcytic anemias are β- thalassemia minor (btm) and iron deficiency anemia (ida). several discrimination indices have been proposed to quickly discriminate these similar entities via parameters obtained from automated blood count analyzers. the aim of this study to evaluate the diagnostic reliability of ten discrimination indices in the differentia...

P EIiNICIOUS ANEMIA is a deficiency disease which involves the metabolism of at least the hematologic, gastiointestinal and nervous systems. Signs and symptoms occurring from the disease may result directly from the effects of the deficiency on cell metabolism or more indirectly l)ecause of the anemia. The tongue and nervous system may he involved with little or no cvidence of hematologic disea...

Deficiency of vitamin B12 and/or folic acid as a cause of pyrexia, though known, is rarely reported in literature. We aimed to report a case in a 51 year old woman, who presented with fever and pancytopenia and was diagnosed to have megaloblastic anemia secondary to vitamin B12 and folate deficiency. The pyrexia subsided following the intramuscular injection of vitamin B12 and oral folic acid a...