The kinetics of haemoglobin and ferritin in longitudinal community patients with iron deficiency or hypoxia
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Tony Badrick
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Ashley Arnott
Abstract
Background:
Red cell distribution width (RDW) is well recognised as a marker of iron-deficient anaemia, as well as useful to the distinction between some anaemic states. A role in the prediction of patient mortality and for the laboratory diagnosis of organ dysfunction has been also investigated. RDW has recently been suggested as a marker of acute and chronic hypoxia.
Methods:
In this paper we use RDW kinetics to identify different patient groups and then investigate the relationship between RDW, ferritin and haemoglobin kinetics in a large cross-sectional community patient dataset.
Results:
A novel mathematical model of this relationship is developed that captures all aspects of variation in the data. A linear regression of RDW/log(ferritin) on days is combined with a multi-level random structure including random intercepts and slopes for each patient.
Conclusions:
No evidence of an age affect was found in the data. On the other hand, significant patterns in the rises and falls of log(ferritin) and haemoglobin with RDW over time are identified.
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank the Quality Use of Pathology Programme (QUPP), The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australia, for funding this study.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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