![]() ![]() Similarly, only 2 of 86 (2.3%) adult women with iron deficiency anemia had thrombocytopenia. In a case series of 42 children with severe iron deficiency anemia, only 1 patient (2.4%) had a platelet count less than 100 × 10 9/L. Most patients with iron deficiency will have normal or elevated platelet counts, some higher than 1,000 × 10 9/L at diagnosis thrombocytopenia in association with iron deficiency is relatively rare. Iron deficiency can also affect the platelet count. If left untreated, iron deficiency anemia can become severe and cause lethargy, pallor, tachycardia, tachypnea, irritability, decreased appetite, failure to thrive, and congestive heart failure. ![]() Although the prevalence of iron deficiency has steadily declined among infants in the United States owing to a successful initiative to improve dietary iron intake, children from low-income families remain at high risk for developing anemia. ![]() Iron deficiency is the most common etiology of anemia in children worldwide. ![]()
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