UTILITY OF LOW HEMOGLOBIN DENSITY AND MICROCYTIC ANEMIA FACTOR IN IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA

Abstract

ntroduction: Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most common form of nutritional anemia. Beckman 
coulter has proposed newer RBC parameters: low hemoglobin density (LHD %) and microcytic anemia factor 
(MAF) , which can be obtained by calculation and might replace the routine biochemical parameters used for 
diagnosis of IDA. As these biochemical parameters give discordant results in combined deficiencies and 
conditions associated with other co-morbidities. We aimed to evaluate the significance of the newer 
parameters (LHD and MAF) in the diagnosis of IDA and compared them with routinely used biochemical 
parameters in the diagnosis of IDA