The peptide hormone leptin regulates food intake, body mass, and reproductive function and
plays a role in fetal growth, proinflammatory immune responses, angiogenesis and lipolysis …

Anaemia affects roughly a third of the world's population; half the cases are due to iron
deficiency. It is a major and global public health problem that affects maternal and child …

The clinical performance of a laboratory test can be described in terms of diagnostic
accuracy, or the ability to correctly classify subjects into clinically relevant subgroups …

This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on the use of
indicators for assessing a population's iron status and application of the use of ferritin …

CLINICAL SCENARIO You are back where we put you in the previous article 1 on diagnostic
tests in this series on how to use the medical literature: in the library studying an article that …

Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is a major cause of morbidity and burden of disease
worldwide. It can generally be diagnosed by blood testing and remedied by iron …

Reverse epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors in maintenance dialysis patients.
Conventional risk factors of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the general population …

BACKGROUND: Serum ferritin was discovered in the 1930s, and was developed as a
clinical test in the 1970s. Many diseases are associated with iron overload or iron deficiency …

Background Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and
postmenopausal women in the developed world and is a common cause of referral to …

Background Guidelines on heart failure (HF) define iron deficiency (ID) as a serum ferritin<
100 ng/mL or, when 100-299 ng/mL, a transferrin saturation (TSAT)< 20%. Inflammation …