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The effect of iron-deficiency anaemia on two indices of nutritional status, prealbumin and transferrin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2008

F. Delpeuch ,
A. Cornu  and
P. Chevalier
F. Delpeuch
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit, National Office for Scientific and Technical Research, PO Box 193, Yaoundé, Cameroon, W. Africa
A. Cornu
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit, National Office for Scientific and Technical Research, PO Box 193, Yaoundé, Cameroon, W. Africa
P. Chevalier
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit, National Office for Scientific and Technical Research, PO Box 193, Yaoundé, Cameroon, W. Africa
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Abstract

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1. Serum prealbumin, transferrin and iron concentrations were measured in ninety-two north Cameroonian children under 5 years of age. The results were grouped according to the blood haemoglobin concentration range in order to show the interactions of anaemia with prealbumin and transferrin concentrations.

2. Transferrin concentration showed a significant negative correlation with serum Fe and percentage saturation of transferrin values. Prealbumin concentration showed a significant direct correlation with haemoglobin but did not correlate with either serum Fe or percentage saturation of transferrin.

3. It is concluded that in regions where Fe-deficiency anaemia is endemic transferrin concentration may be of little value in determining nutritional status. On the contrary, prealbumin seems to be more useful.

Type
Short Papers
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , March 1980 , pp. 375 - 379
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1980

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