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Ferritin in serum and urine: A pilot study.
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- Evaluation of the Relationship Between Serum and Urine Ferritin Level of Low Birth Weight Infants.Iranian journal of pathology · 2022Article
- Early iron supplementation and iron sufficiency at one month of age in NICU patients at-risk for iron deficiency.Blood cells, molecules & diseases · 2021Article
- Urinary ferritin; a potential noninvasive way to screen NICU patients for iron deficiency.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Biochemistry of mammalian ferritins in the regulation of cellular iron homeostasis and oxidative responses.Science China. Life sciences · 2021Review
- Ferritins in Kidney Disease.Seminars in nephrology · 2020Review
- Ferritin in Kidney and Vascular Related Diseases: Novel Roles for an Old Player.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Hearing loss in humans drinking tube well water with high levels of iron in arsenic-polluted area.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Iron deficiency in newborn infants: global rewards for recognizing and treating this silent malady.Newborn (Clarksville, Md.)Article
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Abstract
Serum ferritin reflects total body iron stores, thus a low serum ferritin is used as a parameter of iron deficiency. In healthy adults in Japan, urine ferritin levels were about 5% of serum ferritin levels, with a correlation coefficient of 0.79. It is not known whether a low urine ferritin could serve as a non-invasive screen for iron deficiency. If so, this might be useful for neonates and young children, avoiding phlebotomy to screen for iron deficiency. However, for urinary ferritin screening to be feasible, ferritin must be measurable in the urine and correlate with serum ferritin. Testing should also clarify whether the iron content of ferritin in serum and urine are similar. In this pilot feasibility study we measured ferritin in paired serum and urine samples of healthy adult males, healthy term neonates, growing preterm neonates, and children who had very high serum ferritin levels from liver disorders or iron overload. We detected ferritin in every urine sample, and found a correlation with paired serum ferritin (Spearman correlation coefficient 0.78 of log
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