Low Serum Ferritin Might Predict Incident Heart Failure: But Why and Is It Clinically Useful?

JACC Heart Fail. 2024 Mar;12(3):549-551. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2023.12.012. Epub 2024 Feb 7.

Authors

John G F Cleland¹, Pierpaolo Pellicori², Samira Lakhal-Littleton³

Affiliations

¹ British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. Electronic address: john.cleland@glasgow.ac.uk.
² British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

PMID: 38340135
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2023.12.012

No abstract available

Keywords: epidemiology; ferritin; heart failure; iron deficiency; transferrin saturation.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Ferritins
Heart Failure* / epidemiology
Humans
Iron

Substances

Iron
Ferritins

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