Current approaches to diagnosing iron-deficiency anemia in children

<p>Iron-deficiency anemia is a common and, despite the available wide range of iron preparations, unsolved problem in pediatric practice. This is often associated with inadequate diagnosis in primary health care, which is due to both objective problems and underestimation of the seriousness of sequels of iron deficiency. This review gives data on the epidemiology of iron-deficiency anemia in the Russian Federation and worldwide, existing approaches to denning concepts, such as anemia, iron deficiency, and iron deficiency anemia in children, and possible diagnostic methods from the simplest to high-tech.