Americans are iron deficient and at risk of anemia. You can combat iron deficiency with iron supplements and diet.

The cutoffs defining anaemia based on haemoglobin and haematocrit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States (US) are different. We compared the prevalences resulting ...

Anemia rates among children and teenagers in India may be 20 per cent lower than currently reported as diagnosis is based on ethnically inappropriate blood count thresholds, a study argues. The study ...

Among other threshold findings, the investigators found no ancestry-specific genetic variants that might contribute to variation in hemoglobin concentrations among diverse populations. Researchers ...

Careful assessment of anemia and related symptoms is made more difficult by the lack of a standard definition for anemia, a disregard for gender-specific differences in normal hemoglobin levels, and a ...

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Aplastic anemia is not a type of cancer, but it can increase the risk of developing leukemia. Aplastic anemia occurs when the bone marrow no longer produces blood cells. Anything that damages stem ...

Sickle cell anemia is a disease involving abnormally shaped red blood cells, which then have difficulty circulating properly through the body. It is caused by a one nucleotide substitution in one gene ...

A study by researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil and University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom shows that a combination of anemia and weak muscles in older ...

"Mild anemia in elderly women has often been dismissed as 'innocent', but it might be a significant health problem." – Paulo H.M. Chaves, M.D., Ph.D. The amount of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin ...

Risk for proximal cancers low among patients without broad-definition anemia and/or abdominal mass. HealthDay News — In patients without broad-definition anemia and/or abdominal mass, flexible ...