Dietary Iron And Serum Ferritin

The main difference between iron and ferritin blood tests is that the iron blood test measures the iron levels in the blood along with some proteins related to iron while the ferritin blood test measures the stored iron in the body.

Dietary iron and serum ferritin. Infants with ida have impaired psychomotor development and would have even low psychomotor and mental development compared to infants with iron defi ciency but not yet being anemic. We examined the associations of ferroportin q248h alcohol and dietary iron with serum ferritin aspartate aminotransaminase ast and alanine aminotransaminase alt concentrations in african americans. National institutes of health nih 1 a serum ferritin test can diagnose anemia when you are iron deficient or hereditary. These results do not support recommending dietary heme or nonheme iron restrictions for hfec282y homozygotes diag nosed through screening in north.

According to this modeling and holding other variables constant a 70 kg individual with serum ferritin of 100 ng ml associated with dietary iron from meat poultry and fish of 3 5 mg day would have serum ferritin of 135 ng ml 95 c i. Nor was there an association between dietary iron intake and pwv in men p 0 94 nor. By extracting a blood sample not the actual protein a serum ferritin test provides information about the iron level inside your body according to the u s. Low ferritin concentrations suggest deficient iron stores whereas elevated ferritin concentrations could suggest iron overload.

In sub saharan africa high dietary ionic iron and the ferroportin q248h allele have also been implicated in iron accumulation. Regression coefficients of the association between serum ferritin or dietary iron intake and pwv showed no association in multivariate analyses between serum ferritin and pwv in men p 0 67 nor in women before p 0 92 or after menopause p 0 89. Linear regression was used to asses the relationships of dietary estimates of daily alcohol heme iron and non heme iron intake per kg with serum ferritin ast and alt concentrations. Because the iron required for menstruation child bearing and breast feeding strongly affects the iron status of women bothwell et al 1979 we prospectively.

Serum ferritin concentration was measured and a dietary iron questionnaire was completed as part of the evaluation of 213 hfe c282y homozygotes who were identified through screening of 100 000 primary care patients at five hemochromatosis and iron overload screening heirs study field centers in the united states and canada. Ferritin is an iron storage protein present in all cells and can be measured in serum plasma liver red blood cells and other specimens. Iron is the cation that binds with oxygen while iron is stored. 4 black et al.

107 172 associated with dietary iron from meat poultry and fish of 7 0 mg day. No significant relationships between serum ferritin con centration and dietary heme iron content dietary nonheme iron con tent or reports of supplemental iron use were found.