abstract objective: obesity is related to anemia which is explained its mechanism as disorder in iron absorption but the more rational reason is anemia of inflammation or anemia of chronic disease. the aim of this study was to define the prevalence of obesity in patients with normochromic normocytic anemia. materials and methods: we screened 406 patients who were referred to endocrine clinic. t...

background: chronic kidney disease is a progressive and irreversible loss of renal function. anemia is one of the main complications of end-stage renal disease (esrd) which is linked closely with other complications of the disease. the primary therapy for anemia in these patients is erythropoietin (epo). the goal of this study was to find the effect of vitamin d administration in addition to th...

Introduction: Periodontal disease, an inflamma- tory and infectious disease in adults and anemia associated with chronic infection, is one of the most common types of anemia. Considering the similarity of pathogens causing periodontal dis‌ease and anemia, this study aims to investigate the correlation between hematologic para‌meters associated with anemia and modera‌te chronic periodontitis. &...

introduction: periodontal disease, an inflamma- tory and infectious disease in adults and anemia associated with chronic infection, is one of the most common types of anemia. considering the similarity of pathogens causing periodontal dis ease and anemia, this study aims to investigate the correlation between hematologic para meters associated with anemia and modera te chronic periodontitis. ma...

conclusions anemia is a common complication of dm and is associated with duration of disease and microvascular complications. results a total of 93 patients (30.4%) had anemia including 46 (15.1%) with normochromic normocytic, 44 (14.4%) with hyperchromic microcytic, and 3 (1%) with hyperchromic macrocytic anemias. there was a positive correlation between duration of dm and anemia. microvascula...

equine infectious anemia (eia) is a contagious disease that is clinically characterized by recurrent episodes of fever, hemolytic anemia, icterus, depression, edema and chronic weight loss. the disease is associated with a persistent viral infection. the virus of eia is a member of the retroviridae family. the aim of this study was to determine the status of eia in horses in ahvaz. one hundred ...

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From the Department of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (G.W.); and the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. (L.T.G.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Weiss at the Department of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Medical Universi...

I enjoyed reading the review article on anemia of chronic disease (ACD) that appeared in the October I , 1992 issue of Blood.’ I agree that the name of this type of anemia is a misnomer and misleading. I prefer to call it “anemia of defective iron reutilization.” Iron utilization is the iron that appears in red blood cells (RBC) after intravenous (IV) injection of radioactive inorganic iron int...