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Ability of serum ferritin to diagnose iron deficiency anemia in an elderly cohort

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency anemia in older subjects improves their quality of life. Serum ferritin as a marker of iron stores is an acute phase protein. In older subjects who usually have many concomitant chronic medical conditions, serum ferritin may increase in response...

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Autores principales: Babaei, Mansour, Shafiei, Sajedeh, Bijani, Ali, Heidari, Behzad, Hosseyni, Seyed Reza, Vakili Sadeghi, Mohsen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28830601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjhh.2017.02.002