21. People with iron deficiency are at highest risk, but the condition also can occur in pregnant women, children and some people with mental illness. 22. There a battery of tests revealed an iron deficiency, a supplement was prescribed, and Ehlers finally had his legs back. 23. They identified iron deficiency as a key factor in Plummer-Vinson syndrome, a painful disorder afflicting some middle-aged women. 24. Torrence was treated at a Stockholm hospital, where blood tests for an iron deficiency or any serious illness were negative. 25. Unusual food cravings, sometimes called pica, are usually a tipoff to anemia caused by iron deficiency. 26. Vast numbers of people in poor countries, and a significant fraction in the United States and other developed nations, suffer from iron deficiency. 27. Yellowing leaves can be caused by an iron deficiency, over- or underwatering, or having the pH too high. 28. But youngsters are not routinely screened for less severe iron deficiencies. 29. Evidence of an iron deficiency was four times greater in the male farm workers than among comparable groups of men in the United States. 30. He also planned to argue that the child could have died for any number of reasons, such as iron deficiency, scurvy or rickets. |