Prevalence and Risk Factors of Anemia in the MASHAD Cohort Study.
Maryam TayefiMahmoud EbrahimiSara Saffar SoflaeiSania SaljoughianNajmeh JaberiMajid Khadem RezaiyanFarzad RahmaniMohsen MoohebatiHabibollah EsmailySeyed Mohammad Reza ParizadehAli Reza Heidari-BakavoliMohammad SafarianMohsen NematyMahmoud Reza AzarpazhoohGordon A FernsMajid Ghayour MobarhanPublished in: Archives of Iranian medicine (2023)
The studied population had a lower prevalence of anemia compared to the previous WHO report for Iranians. Iron deficiency is recognized as the most important cause of anemia in Iran; however, further investigations will be need to confirm this pattern. We demonstrated that anemia is adversely associated with MetS and DM.