[Combined evaluation of iron reserves in women]. / Kompleknaia otsenka zapasov zheleza v organizme u zhenshchin.

ABSTRACT

Peripheral blood hemoglobin levels, serum iron, general serum iron-binding capacity, transferrin saturation with iron, transferrin, serum ferritin and erythrocytic ferritin were studied in 101 clinically normal women. Apparent and latent iron deficiency was rather frequently detected among them. Information on transferrin saturation with iron, erythrocytic ferritins and, particularly, serum ferritin, was most valuable in the estimation of iron deficiency. The combined evaluation of erythrocytic and serum ferritins has permitted the authors to distinguish 5 variants of iron reserves in the body and to avoid discrepancy arising in their individual estimations.