Iron deficiency by serum ferritin (WHO 2020) who2020_iron_deficiency_ferritin@1.0
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- Status
- draft — pending clinical and coding review (draft — requires clinical and coding review)
- Condition
- Iron deficiency
- Tier
- 1
- Use here
- default set (ferritin)
- Edition
- 2020 (2020)
- Second source
- none opened · not found: No independent source with the same cut-offs was opened.
- Contested
- yes: Ferritin cut-offs for iron deficiency vary widely between bodies and studies (the guideline's own review cites thresholds from <12 to <30 µg/L in pregnancy); WHO's are low (high specificity). Other bodies (e.g. gastroenterology guidance) use higher values; those texts were not opened.
World Health Organization, WHO guideline on use of ferritin concentrations to assess iron status in individuals and populations
who2020_iron_deficiency_ferritin@1.0Table 1, iron deficiency, serum ferritin (µg/L): Children under 5 years <12 (apparently healthy), <30 (infection or inflammation); Adults (20–59 years) <15, <70; Pregnant women <15 (first trimester)
2020 (2020) · Executive summary, recommendations 1.1-1.2 (PDF page 11) and Table 1 (PDF page 12) · source
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