Pica associated with iron deficiency or depletion: clinical and laboratory correlates in 262 non-pregnant adult outpatients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are many descriptions of the association of pica with iron deficiency in adults, but there are few reports in which observations available at diagnosis of iron deficiency were analyzed using multivariable techniques to identify significant predictors of pica. We sought to identify clinical and laboratory correlates of pica in adults with iron deficiency or depletion using univariable and stepwise forward logistic regression analyses.

Methods

We reviewed charts of 262 non-pregnant adult outpatients (ages ≥18 y) who required treatment with intravenous iron dextran. We tabulated their sex, age, race/ethnicity, body mass index, symptoms and causes of iron deficiency or depletion, serum iron and complete blood count measures, and other conditions at diagnosis bef

SUBMITTER: Barton JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3022645 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature