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Iron deficiency anemia-a case study

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Case Details An 18 –year- old female reported to the physician for consultation. She complained of generalized weakness, lethargy, and inability to do the routine work from the previous few months. On further questioning, she revealed that she was having excessive bleeding during menstruation for the previous six months. She complained of breathlessness and palpitations […]

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Mechanism of Iron absorption

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Iron absorption takes place largely in the proximal small intestine and is a carefully regulated process. In general, there is no regulation of the amounts of nutrients absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. A notable exception is an iron, the reason that absorption must be carefully regulated is that the body does not possess a physiological

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