Heart Health
Can a hospital stay make you anemic?
Frequent blood testing after a heart attack can deplete red blood cells.
Anemia — having too few oxygen-carrying red blood cells in circulation — is a blood problem that plagues millions of people. Among anemia's many possible causes are diets poor in iron or folic acid, kidney disease, internal bleeding, and cancer.
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