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Outcome of endoscopy-negative iron deficiency anemia in patients above 65
- Source :
- Medicine. 95:e5339
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2016.
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Abstract
- After the age of 65 years, iron deficiency anemia (IDA) requires the elimination of digestive neoplasia and is explored with upper and lower gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. However, such explorations are negative in 14% to 37% of patients. To further evaluate this issue, we evaluated the outcomes of patients aged over 65 years with endoscopy-negative IDA.We retrospectively analyzed the outcomes of in-patients over the age of 65 years with IDA (hemoglobin
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
biology
Anemia
business.industry
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
Iron deficiency
medicine.disease
Gastroenterology
Ferritin
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Iron-deficiency anemia
Interquartile range
hemic and lymphatic diseases
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Internal medicine
Cohort
medicine
biology.protein
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
business
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00257974
- Volume :
- 95
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b45a3c64d0457c2a8d5e7b007e47d64f