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Efficiency of red cell distribution width in identification of children aged 1-3 years with iron deficiency anemia against traditional hematological markers

BACKGROUND: Current strategy to identify iron deficiency anemia relies on markers involving high costs. Reports have suggested red cell distribution width (RDW) as a potential screening test for identifying iron deficiency anemia (IDA) but studies in pediatric populations are lacking. Our study eluc...

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Autores principales: Sazawal, Sunil, Dhingra, Usha, Dhingra, Pratibha, Dutta, Arup, Shabir, Hiba, Menon, Venugopal P, Black, Robert E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24428927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-8