TY - JOUR AU - AL Gaff, Mohamad Salih AU - AL Ani, Mouroge AU - Babka, Sanabil Slew PY - 2018/10/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Body iron status in blood donors in Erbil JF - Zanco Journal of Medical Sciences (Zanco J Med Sci) JA - Zanco J Med Sci VL - 14 IS - 3 Special SE - Original Articles DO - UR - https://zjms.hmu.edu.krd/index.php/zjms/article/view/492 SP - 1-8 AB - <p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial,Bold; font-size: medium;"><strong>Background and Objectives: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Blood donation is a process by which an individual voluntarilydonates blood for humanitarian reasons, for storage in blood bank. The aim of this study is evaluation of iron status of blood donors in Erbil city.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial,Bold; font-size: medium;"><strong>Methods: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Over six months period ,489 healthy looking adult male attending Nanakaly hospital for blood disease in Erbil city north of Iraq, those divided into 1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;">st </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">time donors, multiple donors (2-4times/2year) and frequent donors(&gt;4times/2year), blood samples for complete blood picture, serum iron parameters &amp;serum ferritin level were performed.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial,Bold; font-size: medium;"><strong>Results: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Ninety one donor(18.6%)were found to have </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial,Italic; font-size: medium;">laboratory </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">evidence of iron deficiency, all were repeated donors, (20.5%) among multiple donors increased to (26.7%) among frequent donors. iron deficiency was positively related to the frequency of blood donations(p&lt;0.001).the frequency of early stages of iron deficiency was higher among multiple donors (store depletion 47.9%, iron deficient erythropoiesis (IDE) 47.9% ompared to 37.2% store depletion &amp;44.2% iron deficient erythropoiesis (IDE) among frequent donor iron deficiency anemia (IDA) was higher among frequent donors(18.6%V4.2%p=0.01).mean cell volume (MCV) was inversely related to frequency of donation, emoglobin and Hematocrit (HB&amp; PCV) showed no association with serum ferritin or with frequency of donations, however serum iron&amp; transferrin saturation were positively associated with&nbsp; erum ferritin level.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial,Bold; font-size: medium;"><strong>Conclusion: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">iron deficiency is common among repeated donors and worsens with increasing frequency of donations ,iron supplementation may be needed.</span></p> ER -