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"Iron", Pediatric Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics, Ronald E. Kleinman, MD, FAAP, Frank R. Greer, MD, FAAP
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Iron deficiency has recently been defined by a group of international experts as: “a health-related condition in which iron availability is insufficient to meet the body’s needs which can be present with or without anemia.”1 Iron is critical for the generation and functioning of numerous proteins as well as cells with high energy demand, such as cardiac and skeletal myocytes. Also vulnerable to iron depletion are cells with a high mitogenic potential, including hematopoietic, epithelial, and immune cells.2
Iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) continue to be of worldwide concern. Among children in the developing world,...
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