Iron Supplementation Improves Hemoglobin Recovery Time Following Blood Donation

Friday, February 13, 2015 - 01:30 in Health & Medicine

Among blood donors with normal hemoglobin levels, low-dose oral iron supplementation, compared with no supplementation, reduced the time to recovery of the postdonation decrease in hemoglobin concentration in donors with low or higher levels of a marker of overall iron storage (ferritin), according to a study in the February 10 issue of JAMA. read more

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