in this study the iron status of pregnant women in two different socio-economic groups and also the effect of multigravidity on iron status of the mothers were investigated. blood samples were with drawn from 165 mothers (91 from farah and 74 from missaghieh maternity hospital) immediately after delivery and hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (tibc) and total protei...

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 i...

background cardiovascular disease is the world´s leading cause of death and elevated serum iron and ferritin have been proposed as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction (ami) in recent years. this study was done to determine the relationship between serum iron and ferritin with ami and its role on early coronary vessels disorder. material and methods in this cross-sectional study, total...

background and objectives: complement proteins are some of the most important plasma proteins of the innate immune system. impaired immune function is reported in subjects who are iron deficient, and there are documents that these patients are prone to infection. this study was conducted to show whether serum c3 and c4 complement change in adult nonpregnant female with iron deficient anemia or ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the iron concentrations in serum and carotid plaque in patients with different morphology of carotid atherosclerotic plaque and compared with other metal ions. carotid endarterectomy due to the significant atherosclerotic stenosis was performed in 91 patients. control group consisted of 27 patients, without carotid atherosclerosis. atherosclerotic pla...

conclusions this study revealed that serum iron markers (especially ferritin and transferrin) might be used as surrogate markers for both liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity. patients and methods eighty five patients with untreated hepatitis c chronic infection were investigated. . results twenty one patients (24.7%) had elevated serum iron levels, and 29 subjects (34.1%) had severe l...

background iron-loaded cardiac complication is the essential cause of mortality in patients with thalassemia. early detection and treatment of cardiac over-load can reduce mortality. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the relationship between serum ferritin levels and t2* magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of heart and liver and liver iron concentration (lic) to diagnose iron over loa...

We report our observations on day-to-day variation in serum ferritin, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity, and percent saturation of binding proteins with iron in 13 ostensibly healthy subjects during five weeks. The average intrasubject coefficients of variation were 14.5, 28.5, 4.8, and 28.0%, respectively. Precision studies on control samples showed greater within-assay and between-assay...