Background: The role of high levels of parathyroid hormone in the development of anemia either directly or by mediating mechanisms is unclear, and there is a controversy about the pathophysiological role of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the development and intensification of anemia associated with renal disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between anemia and parathy...

Background & Aims: Maternal anemia in pregnancy is a considerable risk factor for both mother and fetus. Growth retardation, intra uterine fetal death, maternal cardiovascular symptoms and reduction in blood supply are among outcomes of maternal anemia. Since there are different reports about the relationship between low maternal hemoglobin level and low birght weight, the precent study was des...

results overall, 1252 patients with morbid obesity were included in the study. the mean age of participants was 39.77 ± 10.84 years (ranged 10 to 70 years) and 80.3% of them were female. the mean body weight was 126.75 ± 21.58 kg and the mean bmi was also 46.99 ± 5.87 kg/m2. in result, 9.8% were anemic according to the low value of hemoglobin level, 46.6% had ferritin lower than the normal rang...

in 1979, a community health survey for the purpose of establishing population babe. services were conducted in the villages of region of isfahan with a population of about 10,000. the target group involved males and females with in the age group of more than one year old. the population under study, 617 males and 565 females who were selected by household random sampling, where examined for the...