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Abstract
Deficient amounts of iron in the body as a result of blood loss, diets deficient in iron, or an iron uptake or storage disorder.
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- Iron Deficiency
- Sideropenia
- Deficiencies, Iron
- Deficiency, Iron
- Sideropenias
- Hypoferritinemia
- Latent Iron Deficiency
- Deficiencies, Latent Iron
- Deficiency, Latent Iron
- Hypoferritinemias
- Iron Deficiencies, Latent
- Iron Deficiency, Latent
- Latent Iron Deficiencies
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35 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY is also available
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2022
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QU 260.5.I7
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Iron Deficiencies. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000090463. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000090463
- Iron Deficiencies. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_deficiency
- Iron Deficiencies. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1313081