Claremont Institute

Diagnostic Utility of Complete Blood Count Indices in Ferritin‐Defined Microcytosis Among United States Women Aged 18–49 Years

ABSTRACT Introduction Complete blood count (CBC) discrimination indices are widely used as low‐cost triage tools for microcytosis, but their diagnostic utility in population‐based samples with ferritin‐defined iron status is uncertain. We evaluated whether commonly used indices d...