Alopecia and Iron Deficiency: An Interventional Pilot Study in Primary Care to Improve the Request of Ferritin

    August 2020 in “ Advances in Hematology ”
    María Salinas, María Leiva-Salinas, Emilio Flores … Carlos Leiva‐Salinas
    Studysummary In this study, an intervention to automatically measure ferritin detected iron deficiency in about 28% of women with alopecia, potentially helping to address hair loss.
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