👉Hepcidin is a relevant #iron status indicator in infancy: results from a randomized trial of early vs. delayed cord clamping

📌 Conclusions: #Hepcidin is relevant as iron status indicator in early infancy and may be useful to detect ID. Levels <16 ng/mL at 4 months of age indicates ID.

Impact: Serum hepcidin is a relevant indicator of iron status in early infancy.Normal reference in healthy infants is suggested in this study.Serum hepcidin may be useful in clinical practice to detect iron deficiency.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-020-1045-9

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👉Urinary #ferritin; a potential noninvasive way to screen NICU patients for #iron deficiency

📌Measuring urinary ferritin in NICU patients is feasible. Since low values identify iron-limitation, this could become a useful noninvasive screen.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-020-0746-6
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Maternal #iron status in #pregnancy is not consistently associated with child iron status after birth.

https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13072221

A positive association was seen between #iron dose at 60 days and cognitive outcomes. Our results suggest that increased iron supplementation in infants born preterm, at the doses administered in the PENUT Trial, may have positive neurodevelopmental effects, particularly in infants treated with Epo

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.07.019