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Abstract
Summary & Conclusion
r ron deficiency IS a public health problem of widespread
prevalence in developing countries. The rapidly growing infants are the
most vulnerable to iron deficiency if they are not supplemented with
sufficient iron during wearing.
Iron deficiency is said to cause defective physical growth,
defective mental and cognitive development, Immunological deficiency
and decreased physical performance.
The al111 of our work was to study the ofRDW and RDW-MCV
combination in the diagnosis of iron deficiency anernia.
T~e improper wearung including faulty weanmg habits, type of
dirt, and prolonged breast-feeding were of the leading causes of incidence
of anern ia.
Our study revealed that red cell distribution width has a high
sensitivity and specificity as a diagnostic test for lOA (83.31 %,76.2%)
respectively. And that MCV -ROW combination for diagnosis of lOA is
95.0% sensitive, 83.3% specific and has efficiency of 92% as a diagnostic
test for IDA.
Each case was subjected to the following:
1- Full nutritional history.
2- Full anthropometric measures.
3- Hemoglobin level.