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writes: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -S  …  If your iron is low, and you’re a man, you need to have some S  checking of your stool for hidden blood, since it’s rare for even a S  vegetarian man to be iron deficient without bleeding from the gut… S   S                                               Steve Harris, M.D. — Perhaps low iron is just thought to be rare in men, so many doctors don’t bother checking for it?   I looked at the first 200 medical charts of male patients randomly taken out of my files and found that              71  (35.5%)  had a low iron count,             113  (56.5%)  had a normal iron count, and              16  ( 8.0%)  had a high iron count.       That Finnish study linking iron to heart disease may have given a lot of people the idea that iron deficiencies don’t exist in men, so unless these studies are taken with a grain of salt or in the right context, assumptions can easily take precedence over patient care. * Ron Roth — * RoseReader 2.10b P003228 Entered at [CRS]

What are you calling a "low iron count"?  Are you using serum ferritins or Fe/TIBC ratios?  You check these on men routinely?                                   Steve Harris, M.D.

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S  …  If your iron is low, and you’re a man, you need to have some S  checking of your stool for hidden blood, since it’s rare for even a S  vegetarian man to be iron deficient without bleeding from the gut… S   S                                               Steve Harris, M.D. —  Perhaps low iron is just thought to be rare in men, so many doctors  don’t bother checking for it?   I looked at the first 200 medical  charts of male patients randomly taken out of my files and found that               71  (35.5%)  had a low iron count,              113  (56.5%)  had a normal iron count, and               16  ( 8.0%)  had a high iron count.        That Finnish study linking iron to heart disease may have given a  lot of people the idea that iron deficiencies don’t exist in men, so  unless these studies are taken with a grain of salt or in the right  context, assumptions can easily take precedence over patient care.  * Ron Roth —  * RoseReader 2.10b P003228 Entered at [CRS]

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