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Iron Deficiency May Impact Memory in Young Women

February 2005

Young women who have trouble concentrating or cannot remember things well may have a deficiency in iron that is easy to correct, according to the results of a recent study presented at the American Society of Nutritional Sciences meeting last spring. A group of women, ages 18-35, were given a computerized test to assess their attention and memory. Women who had clinically recognized iron-deficiency anemia completed the tests more slowly and with less accuracy than women who had normal levels of iron (controls). Women who were iron deficient completed the tests as quickly as the controls but were significantly less accurate. After the non-control subjects increased their iron intake, their test results were the same as healthy controls. In addition, 20% of the study participants were found to have lower than normal iron levels. Being that women absorb less iron than men and lose much through menstruation, checking levels for deficiency as well as anemia is very important and supplementation may be helpful.

Presentation at the American Society of Nutritional Sciences meeting at Experimental Biology 2004 held in Washington, DC in April, 2004

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