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Cognitive Function
Moderate iron deficiency affects cognitive performance of young women
May 13th, 2004
Young women who took iron supplementation for 16 weeks significantly improved their attention, short-term and long-term memory, and their performance on cognitive tasks, even though many were not considered to be anemic when the study began, according to researchers at Pennsylvania State University. The study, the first to systematically examine the impact of iron supplementation on cognitive functioning in women aged 18 to 35 (average age 21), was presented at the American Physiological Society's Experimental Biology 2004 conference held April 17-24, 2004. Laura Murray-Kolb, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of John Beard at Penn State, says the study shows that even...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-05-13)
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