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Iron comes from diet and recycled old red cells. It is stored mainly as ferritin and carried in blood on transferrin. When iron is low, red cells become smaller and paler: microcytic, hypochromic anaemia.
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Iron comes from diet and recycled old red cells. It is stored mainly as ferritin and carried in blood on transferrin. When iron is low, red cells become smaller and paler: microcytic, hypochromic anaemia.
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