Low-dose oral iron absorption test: establishment of a reference interval

REFERENCES

• Cook JD. Clinical evaluation of iron deficiency. Semin Hematol 1982; 19: 6 — 18.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Baynes RD. Iron deficiency. In: Brock JH, Halliday JW, Pippard MJ, Powel LW, editors. Iron metabolism in health and disease. London: WB Saunders, 1994: 189 — 225.
   Google Scholar
• Fong TP, Okafor LA, Thomas W Jr, Westerman MP. Stainable iron in aspirated and needle-biopsy speci-mens of marrow: a source of error. Am J Hematol 1977; 2: 47 — 51.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Charache S, Gittlelsohn AM, Allen H, Cox CW, Flanigan V, Periasmy V, et al. Noninvasive assess-ment of tissue iron stores. Am J Clin Pathol 1987; 88: 333 — 7.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Guyatt GH, Patterson C, Ali M, Singer J, Levine M, Turpie I, et al. Diagnosis of iron-deficiency anemia in the elderly. Am J Med 1990; 88: 205— 9.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Crosby WH, O'Neil-Cutting MA. A small-dose iron tolerance test as an indicator of mild iron deficiency. JAMA 1984; 251: 1986–7.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Magnusson B, Björn-Rasmussen E, Hallberg L, Rossander L. Iron absorption in relation to iron sta-tus. Model proposed to express results of food iron absorption measurements. Scand J Haematol 1981; 27: 201 —8.
   Google Scholar
• Skikne B, Baynes RD. Iron absorption. In: Brock JH, Halliday JW, Pippard MJ, Powel LW, edi-tors. Iron metabolism in health and disease. Lon-don: WB Saunders, 1994: 151 —87.
   Google Scholar
• Morse EE, Cable R, Keltonic J, Pisciotto P. Iron absorption studies in deferred female blood donors [Abstract]. Ann Clin Lab Sci 1986; 16: 332 — 3.
   Google Scholar
• O'Neil-Cutting MA, Crosby WH. The effect of antacids on the absorption of simultaneously ingested iron. JAMA 1986; 255: 1468–70.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• O'Neil-Cutting MA, Crosby WH. Blocking of iron absorption by a preliminary oral dose of iron. Arch Intern Med 1987; 147: 489 — 91.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Fonseca A, Beswick T, Kelsey SM, Hayllar J, Unsworth J, Murray J, et al. Low-dose iron absorption test and the anaemia of rheumatoid disease [Abstract]. Br J Rheumatol 1987; 26 suppl 2: 110.
   Google Scholar
• Kelsey SM, Blake DR, Hider RC, Gutteridge CN, Newland AC. Absorption of ferric maltol, a novel ferric iron compound, in iron-deficient subjects [Letter]. Clin Lab Haematol 1989; 11: 287 — 8.
   Google Scholar
• Pennypacker LC, Braun TJ, Seligman PA. Oral iron absorption in healthy elderly—is age a factor? [Abstract]. J Am Geriatr Soc 1990; 38: A21.
   Google Scholar
• Costa A, Liberato LN, Palestra P, Barosi G. Small-dose iron tolerance test and body iron con-tent in normal subjects. Eur J Haematol 1991; 46: 152 — 7.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Kelsey SM, Hider RC, Bloor JR, Blake DR, Gutteridge CN, Newland AC. Absorption of low and therapeutic doses of ferric maltol, a novel ferric iron compound, in iron deficient subjects using a single dose iron absorption test. J Clin Pharm Ther 1991; 16: 117–22.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Joosten E, Vander Elst B, Billen J. Small-dose oral iron absorption test in anaemic and non-anaemic elderly hospitalized patients. Eur J Haematol 1997; 58: 99 — 103.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Siedel J, Wahlefeld AW, Ziegenhorn J. Improved, ferrozineR-based reagent for the determination of serum iron (transferrin iron) without deproteiniza-tion [Abstract]. Clin Chem 1984; 30: 975.
   Google Scholar
• Nadler SB, Hidalgo JU, Bloch T. Prediction of blood volume in normal human adults. Invest Sur-gery 1962; 51: 224 — 32.
   Google Scholar
• Hamilton WF, Moore JW, Kinsman JM, Spurling RG. Studies on the circulation. IV. Further analysis of the injection method, and of changes in hemody-namics under physiological and pathological con-ditions. Am J Physiol 1931; 99: 534 — 51.
   Google Scholar
• Weintraub LR, Conrad ME, Crosby WH. The sig-nificance of iron turnover in the control of iron absorption. Blood 1964; 24: 19 — 24.
   Google Scholar
• Bohannon RA, Hutchison JL, Townsend SR. The use of radioiron in the study of anemia. Ann Intern Med 1961; 55: 975 — 88.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Armitage P, Berry G. Statistical methods in medi-cal research, 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1994
   Google Scholar
• Hintze JL. SOLO Statistical system, 8th ed. Los Angeles: BMDP Statistical Software, Inc, 1991
   Google Scholar
• SAS Institute Inc. SAS/ STAT® User's Guide, Version 6, 4th ed. Cary, NC, USA: SAS Institute Inc., 1989
   Google Scholar
• Solberg HE. International Federation of Clinical Chemistry, Approved Recommendation (1987) on the Theory of Reference Values. Part 5. Statistical treatment of collected reference values. Determina-tion of reference limits. J Clin Chem Clin Biochem 1987; 25: 645 —56.
   Google Scholar
• Lentner C, editor. Geigy scientific tables, vol. 2: Introduction to statistics, statistical tables, mathematical formulae, 8th ed. Basel: Ciba-Geigy, 1982
   Google Scholar
• Sinniah R, Doggart JR, Neill DW. Diurnal varia-tions of the serum iron in normal subjects and in patients with haemochromatosis. Br J Haematol 1969; 17: 351–8.
   Google Scholar
• Ekenved G, Norrby A, Sölvell L. Serum iron increase as a measure of iron absorption—studies on the correlation with total absorption. Scand J Haematol Suppl 1976; 28: 31–49.
   Google Scholar
• Statland BE, Winkel P, Bokelund H. Variation of serum iron concentration in young healthy men: within-day and day-to-day changes. Clin Biochem 1976; 9: 26–9.
   Google Scholar
• Burns ER, Goldberg SN, Lawrence C, Wenz B. Clinical utility of serum tests for iron deficiency in hospitalized patients. Am J Clin Pathol 1990; 93: 240 — 5.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Borel MJ, Smith SM, Derr J, Beard JL. Day-to-day variation in iron-status indices in healthy men and women. Am J Clin Nutr 1991; 54: 729 — 35.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Lee GR. Microcytosis and the anemias associated with impaired hemoglobin synthesis. In: Lee GR, Bithell TC, Foerster J, Athens JW, Lukens IN, edi-tors. Wintrobe's clinical hematology, 9th ed. Mal-vern: Lea & Febiger, 1993: 791 — 807.
   Google Scholar
• Maes M, Bosmans E, Scharpe S, Hendriks D, Cooremans W, Neels H, et al. Components of biological variation in serum soluble transferrin receptor: relationships to serum iron, transferrin and ferritin concentrations, and immune and hae-matological variables. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1997; 57: 31–41.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marsh WL Jr, Koenig HM. The laboratory evalua-tion of microcytic red blood cells. Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci 1982; 16: 195–254.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Worwood M. Laboratory determination of iron status. In: Brock JH, Halliday JW, Pippard MJ, Powell LW, editors. Iron metabolism in health and disease. London: WB Saunders, 1994: 449 — 76.
   Google Scholar
• Russell B. A history of Western philosophy and its connection with political and social circumstances from the earliest times to the present day, 2nd ed. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1985: 462–3.
   Google Scholar