Sharply higher rates of iron deficiency in obese Mexican women and children are predicted by obesity-related inflammation rather than by differences in dietary iron intake
- 1 May 2011
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 93 (5), 975-983
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.110.005439
Abstract
Background: Obese individuals may be at increased risk of iron deficiency (ID), but it is unclear whether this is due to poor dietary iron intakes or to adiposity-related inflammation.This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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