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Journal of Pregnancy and Child Health
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Pregnancy Complications Associated with Elevated Iron
| Weinberg Eugene* | |
| Department of Biology, Bloomington, Indiana University, United States | |
| Corresponding Author : | Weinberg Eugene Department of Biology Bloomington, Indiana University United States Tel: (812) 855-7323 E-mail: eweinber@indiana.edu |
| Received: February 10, 2016 Accepted: February 17, 2016 Published: February 24, 2016 | |
| Citation: Eugene W (201) Pregnancy Complications Associated with Elevated Iron. J Preg Child Health 3:226. doi:10.4172/2376-127X.1000226 | |
| Copyright: © 2016 Eugene W. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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| To the Editor |
| During the past fifteen years, awareness of iron associated complications of pregnancy has markedly increased [1-8]. Although 97.5% of U.S. pre-menopausal women are reported to be iron replete [9], some gravid women, to overcome fatigue, consume over-thecounter iron supplements. Complications associated with elevated iron during pregnancy include increased retinopathy of prematurity [2], teratogenicity [4], gestational diabetes [5], preeclampsia [6], and GRACILE syndrome [7]. Thus it would be prudent to advise pregnant persons, in the absence of determination of actual iron deficiency, to avoid excessive iron. |
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