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After menopause, periods stop and iron usually settles, so iron deficiency becomes much less common. Which is why, if it does show up, it’s worth looking into rather than putting down to age. Our article on menopause and iron: worldanemiaawareness.com/men…
In perimenopause, periods often get heavier or less predictable. More blood lost, more iron lost.
Fatigue, brain fog and a shorter fuse get put down to midlife. Iron can sit behind the same signs.
ALT A woman in her forties sits on the edge of a bed in a sunlit room, looking toward the window. Text reads: My Blood Health. Tired in her forties. Filed under getting older. worldanemiaawareness.com
Our My Blood Health article looks at the overlap, how iron deficiency differs from anemia, and questions worth taking to an appointment:
worldanemiaawareness.com/per…
ALT Text on a navy background reads: My Blood Health. What if a decade of "just getting older" was met with a little more curiosity? Read the article: Perimenopause and iron, the quiet connection in a woman's forties. worldanemiaawareness.com
In your forties, periods often change: heavier, longer, less predictable. More blood lost each month means more iron lost with it. So tiredness might not only be the years. Could it be iron? worldanemiaawareness.com/per…
On #WorldAnesthesiaDay, Dr Diana Castro Paupério reminds us that protecting a patient’s blood is teamwork: surgeons, nurses, perfusionists and anesthesiologists, together.
Patient or clinician? Take Iron Pulse, 90 seconds: worldanemiaawareness.com/iro…
Do low mood and blood clots have anything in common? The thread might be iron. Low iron is linked with both, and shows up most in women. Has your iron been looked at properly?
#WorldMentalHealthDay #WorldThrombosisDay
25 years of Patient Blood Management. The 25th SABM Annual Meeting reached 143 countries in 35 languages, from Atlanta to the world.
A privilege to have been part of it. Congratulations @bloodmgmt
#PatientBloodManagement #BloodHealth
"The beauty about RET-He is it's in the same tube."
Dr Swati Pai explains why reticulocyte hemoglobin (RET-He) needs no extra sample, and why that matters for patients in hospital.
Find out more tomorrow, Thursday 8 October:
worldanemiaawareness.com/eve…
#PatientBloodManagement
"Ferritin always comes with a but."
A normal ferritin can hide low iron. Dr Swati Pai explains why reticulocyte hemoglobin (RET-He) gives a clearer picture.
Find out more on Thursday 8 October:
worldanemiaawareness.com/eve…
#IronDeficiency
The cut-off for low iron just changed. New 2026 @ASH_hematology guidelines raised the ferritin threshold for iron deficiency in adults from 15 to 30 ng/mL, and up to 50 with symptoms. A result once called normal may now point to low iron. Finding out matters more than ever.
A normal hemoglobin does not always mean normal iron.
Hematopathologist Dr Swati Pai on why reticulocyte hemoglobin is her "true Iron Man."
worldanemiaawareness.com/eve…
#Hematology
"When I trained, blood was good. More blood was better."
Transfusion was automatic. Then clinicians asked a better question: what if we managed the patient's own blood first?
Better Care For All. 25 years of SABM @bloodmgmt
Full film: youtu.be/dRDo0IpTkcI?si=4GhM…
A milestone worth recognizing. At the SABM 25th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Atlanta, five leaders were honored for their part in the SABM 25-year legacy video, celebrating a quarter century of excellence in blood health. #PatientBloodManagement
The problems worth solving in medicine are never one specialty's to solve. So the meeting where they get worked on is not either.
Two days until the 25th SABM Annual Meeting. Atlanta, September 17 to 19, open from anywhere.
Anemia is one of the most common effects of cancer treatment, and one of the least discussed. In a study of common solid tumors, close to nine in ten developed anemia during chemotherapy. Chemo targets fast-dividing cells, including the marrow that makes red blood cells.
This Thursday is World Patient Safety Day, this year on safe care for noncommunicable diseases, cancer included, and the opening of SABM's 25th Annual Meeting: events.worldanemiaawareness.…
For twenty five years, SABM has been putting the patient at the centre of the care. Not the protocol. Not the product. The person in the bed.
The 25th SABM Annual Meeting. Atlanta, September 17 to 19, open from anywhere in 35 languages.
The honest measure of a meeting is what is still being done differently three months later.
One session at the 25th SABM Annual Meeting is six hospitals presenting what they actually changed. Seven minutes each.
Atlanta, September 17 to 19, and open from anywhere.
In one study across ten cities in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, close to half of women had heavy menstrual bleeding. Every heavy period is also iron leaving the body, a common route to iron deficiency, and anemia.
Women's blood health is on the program at SABM's 25th Annual Meeting, Atlanta or online worldwide in 35 languages: events.worldanemiaawareness.…
Almost nobody sets out to work in blood health. They find it sideways, then spend years learning it mostly alone.
Then the first annual meeting, and the people who solved it five years ago.
The 25th SABM Annual Meeting. Atlanta, September 17 to 19, open from anywhere.
Fatigue is usually explained by stress. Sometimes it is not.
Iron deficiency can look almost identical, and it can be there even when a blood count comes back normal.
worldanemiaawareness.com/iro…
