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Original Research

Effects of Iron Deficiency and Its Indicators on Lymphocyte Subsets: A Study at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Saudi Arabia

Lolwa AlRajeh1 Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Amr Zaher1 Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9413-3995
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Amal alghamdi2 Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5139-5020
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Rasha Alsheikh2 Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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Osama AlSultan3 Internal Medicine Department, King Fahd University Hospital, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Pages 61-67 | Published online: 16 Feb 2022

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