Evaluation of correlation between saliva and serum ferritin level in patients with iron deficiency anemia and comparision group

Abstract

Iron deficiency anemia is one of the common factors that can result from reducing the intake or absorption of iron, or iron loss caused by the bleeding. Measuring the concentration of ferritin, an important parameter to measure the amount of iron reserves in the body. Saliva and other body fluids are significant similarities in some markers. This study designed for evaluation of correlation between saliva and serum ferritin level in patients with iron deficiency anemia and comparison groupMaterials & methods: In this study, 280 samples of 140 healthy individuals and 140 patients on blood tests problem Anemic they have been determined by sampling saliva, and the amount of ferritin, their saliva was measured and the data obtained by soft reviewed and analyzed using SPSS.Results: The mean value of salivary ferritin in iron deficient cases was111.4µg/dlandthemeanferritinlevelsincontrolsubjectwere94.77µg/dl. Thus the salivary ferritin was found to be significantly higher in iron deficient subjects compared to the controls.Discussion & Conclusions: Results of this study was to evaluate salivary ferritin iron deficiency anemia as a valuable diagnostic test and seemswhen blood vessels appears to be difficult in the cases sampling of saliva is a helpful for diagnostics of this diseases.