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High prevalence of asymptomatic vitamin D and iron deficiency in East African immigrant children and adolescents living in a temperate climate
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- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016There is more to the diagnosis of iron deficiency than hypoferritinaemia or microcytosisShow More
A definition of iron deficiency based solely on the serum ferritin cut-off levels stipulated by the authors(1) runs the risk of underestimating the prevalence of this disorder because patients who have iron deficiency in the presence of chronic inflammation may have serum ferritin levels which fall within the normal range(2). In order to identify such patients, the authors could have documented the levels of C reactive...
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