We studied the effect of 2 weeks of iron therapy on exercise performance and exercise-
induced lactate production in trained women athletes: six control subjects with normal
parameters of iron status and nine with mild iron-deficiency anemia defined by low Fe/TIBC,
ferritin, and minimally decreased Hgb values. Iron therapy improved the abnormal measures
of iron status and low Hgb in the second group to normal. Exercise performance in a
progressive work-exercise protocol on a bicycle erogometer to exhaustion was unchanged …