Iron Absorption during Recovery from Malnutrition
Edgar Vasquez Garibay, MD,
Irene Santos Torres, MD,
Steven E. Nelson, BA,
Ekhard E. Ziegler, MD, FACN,
Ronald R. Rogers, BS,
Morteza Janghorbani, PhD and
Samuel J. Fomon, MD
Instituto de Nutricion Humana, Hospital Civil "Dr. Juan I. Menchaca," Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, MEXICO (E.V.G., I.S.T.)
Department of Pediatrics University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (S.E.N., E.E.Z., R.R.R., S.J.F.)
BioChemAnalysis Corporation, Chicago, Illinois (M.J.)

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Fig. 1 Erythrocyte incorporation of 58Fe in relation to plasma ferritin concentration of infants and children during recovery from malnutrition. Each symbol indicates the incorporation of 58Fe as percent of the dose in one subject with the iron nutritional status of the subject as follows: = iron-sufficient, x = indeterminate iron status, = iron-deficient.
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