[Iron, a "miralcle cure" for chronic cardiac insufficiency?]

[Iron, a "miralcle cure" for chronic cardiac insufficiency?] Z Gerontol Geriatr. 2017 Dec 14;: Authors: Singler K Abstract Anemia and chronic heart failure are frequent comorbidities in geriatric patients. In approximately one third of older adults the cause of the anemia is an iron, vitamin B12 and/or folate deficiency and in another third a chronic inflammatory process is present. In the case of iron deficiency a differentiation must be made between the absolute and functional forms. Although in functional iron deficiency ferritin, as a parameter of iron metabolism, is within the normal range or can even be higher, an iron-deficient erythropoiesis is present. In cardiac insufficiency a chronic inflammatory process is assumed. According to the recent guidelines of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie (DGK, German Cardiac Society) and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) a routine contol of the iron status should be performed and, if necessary, initiation of adequate supplementation is recommended. PMID: 29242982 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Z Gerontol Geriatr Source Type: research