Title:
Iron Deficiency Anemia

Authors:
Swapana John, Dr. Prakash Chand Sharma, India

Abstract:

Aim: Iron deficiency anemia is a global concern affecting the lives of men and women, young and old even children and infants. Iron deficiency continues to be the top-ranking reason for the advancement of anemia even now. (Camaschella C., 2015). Thereby significantly affecting greater part of the population in nearly every country in the world. Iron plays a vital role and is indispensable from the basic reactions of the cell. Among the varied causes for the development of anemia both in developed and developing countries, nutrition remains the top most reason. (Osungbade & Oladunjoye, 2012) With references to the advances in the study and research of systemic iron homeostasis, this review article aims to re-evaluates iron deficiency and its anemia in and explores the causes, path physiological features, and a variety of treatment alternatives. Method: The methodology applied is a narrative based descriptive study on articles from PubMed, Google Scholar, web of Science. Conclusion: Iron Deficiency anemia when undertaken seriously and detected well in advance can be prevented nonetheless nutrition has a great role to play. Result: This study recommends to expand the quality of health services by putting into action more handwork and to evolve with advanced facilities, it also suggests to increase public awareness about anemia.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.51505/IJMSHR.2021.5107