Among other threshold findings, the investigators found no ancestry-specific genetic variants that might contribute to variation in hemoglobin concentrations among diverse populations. Researchers ...

Americans are iron deficient and at risk of anemia. You can combat iron deficiency with iron supplements and diet.

Careful assessment of anemia and related symptoms is made more difficult by the lack of a standard definition for anemia, a disregard for gender-specific differences in normal hemoglobin levels, and a ...

Anemia rates among children and teenagers in India may be 20 per cent lower than currently reported as diagnosis is based on ethnically inappropriate blood count thresholds, a study argues. The study ...

The cutoffs defining anaemia based on haemoglobin and haematocrit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States (US) are different. We compared the prevalences resulting ...

Risk for proximal cancers low among patients without broad-definition anemia and/or abdominal mass. HealthDay News — In patients without broad-definition anemia and/or abdominal mass, flexible ...

Sickle cell anemia is a disease involving abnormally shaped red blood cells, which then have difficulty circulating properly through the body. It is caused by a one nucleotide substitution in one gene ...

‌Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to other cells throughout the body and return carbon dioxide to the lungs. Normal red blood cells are in the shape of a disk, thicker on the edge and ...

Over a median of 4.7 years, the incidence of anemia was 51.2 events per 1,000 person-years in the aspirin group compared with 42.9 events per 1,000 person-years in the placebo group (HR 1.20, 95% CI 1 ...