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Iron
Serum iron concentration; varies during the day and with recent intake and is interpreted with ferritin, TIBC/transferrin and transferrin saturation.
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, ferritin 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, ferritin
How to get this tested?
Evidence
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