NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients who were hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia with co-existing iron deficiency anemia did not have worse outcomes, including mortality, septic shock, acute respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.
Researchers conducted a study to evaluate the impact of iron deficiency anemia in an acute bacterial infection.
“On a day-to-day basis, my colleagues and I tend to manage patients who both have an acute bacterial infection and an underlying iron deficiency anemia, so we decided to conduct a retrospective cohort study using a large database to look at the