Background Coronary artery disease is very common in Pakistani population. Some of the
studies carried out on Western populations have shown a relationship between body iron …

Background A possible association between body iron status and risk of coronary heart
disease (CHD) has been found to be controversial from the data obtained from various …

Background: Increased estimated body iron stores have been suggested to be associated
with increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the question of whether …

Objective: To examine the concentrations of serum iron and some risk factors of coronary
heart disease in Nigerians with evidence of Coronary Heart Disease. Methodology: The …

Methods; Article5 vyere Searched from 1992 to October 2008 using interlibrary loan, hand
searching at the University of Windsor Leddy Library, and by using five electronic databases …

Background Studies conducted have yielded contradicting results on the role of ferritin as a
risk factor for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The relation of ferritin status to risk of AMI in …

There have been inconsistent reports on the relationship between iron status and coronary
artery diseases (CAD), and little data on this relationship in non-Caucasian populations. We …

Abstract Introduction: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1988-
1994, first time reported a significant, positive association in iron storage and heart disease …

BACKGROUND Iron is essential for many physiological processes; whereas, iron overload
has been known as a risk factor in progression of atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was …

Objectives To determine the role of body-iron stores as measured by serum iron, total iron
binding capacity (TIBC), transferrin, ferritin and ferritin: transferrin ratio (FTR) in patients with …