Serum Ferritin Threshold for Iron Deficiency Screening in One-Year-Old Children

Narmin Mukhtarova; Barbara Ha; Carol A Diamond; Amy J Plumb; Pamela J Kling

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.01.050

Serum Ferritin Threshold for Iron Deficiency Screening in One-Year-Old Children

J Pediatr. 2022 Jun:245:217-221. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.01.050. Epub 2022 Jan 31.

Authors

Narmin Mukhtarova¹, Barbara Ha², Carol A Diamond³, Amy J Plumb³, Pamela J Kling⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine and Public Health, and UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaiser Permanente-San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.
³ School of Medicine and Public Health, and UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
⁴ School of Medicine and Public Health, and UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Electronic address: pkling@wisc.edu.

PMID: 35114287
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.01.050

Abstract

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends universal hemoglobin screening for iron deficiency anemia using hemoglobin <110 g/L at the 1-year-old well child visit. Our retrospective study suggests the need for combined hemoglobin and serum ferritin iron deficiency screening and raising the diagnostic serum ferritin threshold to 24-25 μg/L.

Keywords: anemia; hemoglobin; restricted cubic spline regression.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anemia, Iron-Deficiency* / diagnosis
Child
Ferritins
Hemoglobins / analysis
Humans
Infant
Iron Deficiencies*
Retrospective Studies

Substances

Hemoglobins
Ferritins