Anemia prevalence and hematologic findings in German geriatric inpatients – results of the prospective cross-sectional multicenter study “GeriAnaemie 2013”

Conclusion Anemia was mainly normocytic, mild and highly prevalent in this patient cohort, could not always be specified; multicausality was supposed; MCV appeared to be inappropriate for pathogenetical assignment of anemia subtypes in older patients. Further research in geriatric hematologic particularities is needed.
Source: European Geriatric Medicine - Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research