{"id":1857,"date":"2024-11-08T00:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suburban-blog.abymtech.com\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2025-03-05T05:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:45:26","slug":"iron-do-you-have-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/iron-do-you-have-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron: Do you have enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1869\" src=\"https:\/\/suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-300x180.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1459\" height=\"280\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iron is an essential nutrient for multiple functions in the human body, the most important being the synthesis of hemoglobin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0It is common knowledge; therefore, that iron deficiency can cause anemia but some of the other effects of iron deficiency are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Fatigue and lethargy<\/li>\n<li>Paleness in body parts such as the face, lower inner eyelids and nails<\/li>\n<li>Shortness of breath<\/li>\n<li>Headache<\/li>\n<li>Light-headedness and dizziness<\/li>\n<li>Pounding of heart and fast heartbeats<\/li>\n<li>Dry and damaged hair and skin<\/li>\n<li>Sore or swollen tongue<\/li>\n<li>Difficulty in swallowing<\/li>\n<li>Higher risk of restless leg syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Brittle nails<\/li>\n<li>Cravings for strange foods or non-food items (chalk, clay etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Cold hands and feet<\/li>\n<li>More frequent infections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iron deficiency is widely prevalent in our country. It is easily treatable, but if untreated, it can have far-reaching effects on your health. To understand the iron status of the general population, we examined the iron levels of all those who did a serum iron test as part of a routine <a href=\"https:\/\/suburbandiagnostics.com\/services\/health-checkups\">health check-up<\/a> at Suburban Diagnostics over the past 5 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>From more than 40,000 samples, we found that:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iron deficiency is rampant with roughly 1 in 10 women and 1 in 8 men being deficient in Iron. We also found that iron deficiency is seen even in patients who do not have any anemia (latent iron deficiency). 8% of men and 3% of women had iron deficiency despite having normal hemoglobin levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Make your health a priority. Check your iron levels today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron is an essential nutrient for multiple functions in the human body, the most important being the synthesis of hemoglobin. \u00a0It is common knowledge; therefore, that iron deficiency can cause anemia but some of the other effects of iron deficiency are: Fatigue and lethargy Paleness in body parts such as the face, lower inner eyelids<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/iron-do-you-have-enough\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0.webp",1000,600,false]},"categories_names":{"4":{"name":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/general\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0.webp",1000,600,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0.webp",1000,600,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0.webp",1000,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-300x180.webp",300,180,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0.webp",1000,600,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0.webp",1000,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0.webp",1000,600,false],"shuttle-column1-1\/3":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-1000x380.webp",1000,380,true],"shuttle-column1-1\/4":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-1000x285.webp",1000,285,true],"shuttle-column2-1\/2":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-570x285.webp",570,285,true],"shuttle-column2-2\/3":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-570x380.webp",570,380,true],"shuttle-column3-1\/3":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-380x107.webp",380,107,true],"shuttle-column3-2\/3":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-380x254.webp",380,254,true],"shuttle-column4-2\/3":["https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3980d809-b895-4c6b-88a9-b45ebadc8dd0-285x190.webp",285,190,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Suburban","author_link":"https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/author\/suburban\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suburbandiagnostics.com\/blog\/general\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Iron is an essential nutrient for multiple functions in the human body, the most important being the synthesis of hemoglobin. \u00a0It is common knowledge; 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