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Obesity modulate serum hepcidin and treatment outcome of iron deficiency anemia in children: A case control study

BACKGROUND: Recently, hepcidin expression in adipose tissue has been described and shown to be increased in patients with severe obesity. We tried to assess the effect of obesity on hepcidin serum levels and treatment outcome of iron deficiency anemia in children. METHODS: This was a case control st...

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Autores principales: Sanad, Mohammed, Osman, Mohammed, Gharib, Amal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3154149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21771327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-37-34