Obesity modulate serum hepcidin and treatment outcome of iron deficiency anemia in children: A case control study
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Recently, hepcidin expression in adipose tissue has been described and shown to be increased in patients with severe obesity. We tried to assess the effect of obesity on hepcidin serum levels and treatment outcome of iron deficiency...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-07-01
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| Series: | Italian Journal of Pediatrics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ijponline.net/content/37/1/34 |