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Ferritin
The main circulating marker used to estimate iron stores; it also rises with inflammation, so results are interpreted with other iron and inflammatory markers.
What is measured?
The level, concentration or activity of this biomarker measured in the relevant blood sample.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside haemoglobin, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW, iron and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider cellular picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
haemoglobin, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW, iron
How to get this tested?
Evidence
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