Plasma Concentrations of Hepcidin in Anemic Zimbabwean Infants.

Anemia in infancy is a global public health problem. We evaluated the relative contributions of iron deficiency and inflammation to infant anemia.We measured plasma hepcidin, ferritin, soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), alpha-1-acid glycoprotein and C-reactive protein (CRP) by ELISA on archived pl...

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Main Authors: Tatenda G Mupfudze, Rebecca J Stoltzfus, Sandra Rukobo, Lawrence H Moulton, Jean H Humphrey, Andrew J Prendergast, SHINE Trial Team, Andrew D Jones, Amee Manges, Goldberg Mangwadu, John A Maluccio, Mduduzi N N Mbuya, Robert Ntozini, James M Tielsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4529326?pdf=render