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Overview
Common risk factors of megaloblastic anemia include nutritional factors like alcoholism, elderly, pregnant, vegans, and malabsorptive syndromes.
Risk Factors
Common risk factors of megaloblastic anemia:[1][2][3][4]
- Folate deficiency
- Nutritionally deficient - Elderly, alcohol, narcotic abuse
- Those with increased demand: pregnancy, infancy, low grade hemolysis, malignancy or chronic hemodialysis.
- Autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto’s, vitiligo, diabetes, adrenal insufficiency. (Schmitt’s Syndrome).
- Strict vegans and/or their infant
- Malabsorptive disorders such as blind loops/bacterial overgrowth, sprue, whipple’s and crohn’s can malabsorb folate and B12.
- D.Latum is a competitor for B12 absorption. This entity is most commonly found in Scandinavia.
References
- ↑ Carmel R (May 1996). "Prevalence of undiagnosed pernicious anemia in the elderly". Arch. Intern. Med. 156 (10): 1097–100. PMID 8638997.
- ↑ Toh BH, van Driel IR, Gleeson PA (November 1997). "Pernicious anemia". N. Engl. J. Med. 337 (20): 1441–8. doi:10.1056/NEJM199711133372007. PMID 9358143.
- ↑ Rusak E, Chobot A, Krzywicka A, Wenzlau J (September 2016). "Anti-parietal cell antibodies - diagnostic significance". Adv Med Sci. 61 (2): 175–179. doi:10.1016/j.advms.2015.12.004. PMID 26918709.
- ↑ Bizzaro N, Antico A (2014). "Diagnosis and classification of pernicious anemia". Autoimmun Rev. 13 (4–5): 565–8. doi:10.1016/j.autrev.2014.01.042. PMID 24424200.