Showing posts with label iron deficiency. Show all posts
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Monday, July 11, 2011

What is anemia

anemia
what is anemia ? the anemiais, basically, a reduction of the number of red blood cells or the amount of hemoglobin (by unit of volume of blood).

From what is anemia , it can have several types of anemia, according to its cause:

- Post hemorrhagic anemia, that is to say, by loss of blood.

- By lack of iron, known like iron deficiency.

- Haemolytic, caused by a destruction of red blood cells.

- Pernicious, caused by a diminution in the red blood cell formation.