Four weeks of IV iron supplementation reduces perceived fatigue and mood disturbance in distance runners.

To determine the effect of intravenous iron supplementation on performance, fatigue and overall mood in runners without clinical iron deficiency.Fourteen distance runners with serum ferritin 30-100 µg · L(-1) were randomly assigned to receive three blinded injections of intravenous ferric-carboxymal...

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Main Authors: Amy Woods, Laura A Garvican-Lewis, Philo U Saunders, Greg Lovell, David Hughes, Ruth Fazakerley, Bev Anderson, Christopher J Gore, Kevin G Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4172582?pdf=render