Credit: Sanguina AnemoCheck Home is a single-use, disposable diagnostic test designed to measure hemoglobin levels. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared AnemoCheck Home, an at-home ...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is commonly associated with iron deficiency anemia (IDA), with a multifactorial pathophysiology. Diagnosis of both IDA and IBD places patients at risk for poor quality ...
About three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a front-line hospital doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic, she first attributed ...
Four out of every 10 teen girls and young women may have iron levels low enough to cause symptoms such as low energy and dizziness, a new study suggests. But most of them probably don’t know it, ...
Feeling tired? Experiencing headaches, dizziness or lightheadedness? Brittle nails? You might have iron deficiency anemia. True nutrient deficiencies are rather unusual in this day and time, when most ...
The global burden of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) continues to challenge public health by impairing physical performance and cognitive function. Traditional evaluation methods using serum ferritin ...
A person with anemia of chronic disease has decreased red blood cells despite having “normal” or increased iron stores in their body. It can occur in people with underlying inflammatory conditions, ...
Half of pregnant women who had a simple blood test to check their iron stores had low iron levels, and one in four had severe iron deficiency, according to a new article. But despite how common iron ...
What Is an MCV Blood Test? MCV stands for mean corpuscular volume. An MCV blood test measures the average size of red blood cells, which have the critical job of carrying oxygen to your organs. If ...