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The incidence, treatment, and follow-up of iron deficiency in a tertiary care pediatric clinic
- Source :
- Clinical pediatrics. 44(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- To assess the incidence, treatment, and follow-up of iron deficiency in children seen in a tertiary hospital, a retrospective chart review was performed in 2002 of 364 consecutive children screened for iron deficiency with free erythrocyte protoporphyrin and hemoglobin. Sixty-five of the 352 children studied (18.5%) were iron-deficient and 19 patients (5.4%) were anemic. Eighty percent of the affected children were treated with iron, and only 25% had follow-up blood testing done. Iron deficiency is common in children younger than 2 years of age. Whether or not the children had anemia, treatment and follow-up were less than optimal.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Georgia
Adolescent
Anemia
Iron
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Tertiary care
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Age Distribution
030225 pediatrics
medicine
Humans
Blood testing
Child
Retrospective Studies
Anemia, Iron-Deficiency
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Incidence
Infant
Iron deficiency
Iron Deficiencies
medicine.disease
Pediatric clinic
Black or African American
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Free erythrocyte protoporphyrin
Female
Hemoglobin
business
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00099228
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical pediatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....51cac50033e4adcdceb50c5d50321d89