Originally published October 25 2005
Health organization profiles anemia
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A.D.A.M. provides readers with facts about anemia caused by iron deficiency, including risk factors and ethnographic information.
Anemia is a condition where red blood cells are not providing adequate oxygen to body tissues.
There are many types and causes of anemia.
Iron deficiency anemia is a decrease in the number of red cells in the blood caused by too little iron.
Iron deficiency anemia is the most common form of anemia.
Approximately 20% of women, 50% of pregnant women, and 3% of men are iron deficient.
Iron is an essential component of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying pigment in the blood.
Iron is normally obtained through the food in your diet and by recycling iron from old red blood cells.
The causes of iron deficiency are too little iron in the diet, poor absorption of iron by the body, and loss of blood (including from heavy menstrual bleeding).
Anemia develops slowly after the normal stores of iron have been depleted in the body and in the bone marrow.
Women, in general, have smaller stores of iron than men and have increased loss through menstruation, placing them at higher risk for anemia than men.
In men and postmenopausal women, anemia is usually caused by gastrointestinal blood loss associated with ulcers, the use of aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDS), or certain types of cancer (esophagus, stomach, colon).
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