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New Pregnancy Study Findings Have Been Reported from Medical University

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 26th, 2012

2012 APR 26 -- Researchers detail in "Hepcidin is correlated to soluble hemojuvelin but not to increased GDF15 during pregnancy," new data in Pregnancy. "Increased maternal and foetal iron requirements during pregnancy are compensated by an increase of intestinal iron absorption. Animal studies have shown that the expression of the main iron regulator hepcidin is significantly suppressed during pregnancy, but the factors associated with hepcidin suppression remain unknown," researchers in Innsbruck, Austria report.

"To investigate possible suppressors of hepcidin expression during pregnancy we determined serum concentrations of growth-differentiation...

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