Summary
This article in The Lancet Haematology examines the impact of having different anaemia thresholds for men and for women at different life stages. It challenges the data that current medical assumptions are based on, arguing that they have been extrapolated from healthy, predominantly white populations that are not representative of real-world populations. The authors look at the arguments that has been used to determine sex-based differences in haemoglobin concentrations, and argue that there is limited evidence to justify having different anaemia thresholds for men and women. They suggest that removing sex-specific reference ranges for haemoglobin and ferritin may improve the health of women and their offspring.
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