Currently taking iron supplements. Ferritin low-normal but not anemic yet.Was told Iron is linked to increase heart attack/heart disease risk?
I imagine this is just a mere association of iron and heart disease because people from these studies with lots of iron perhaps have just eaten lots of red meat, other unhealthy foods, therefore it's the unhealthy fatty foods they've been eating that are increasing risk of heart disease, not the iron. Am I right?
for example,
"A higher proportion of men with heart attacks had ferritin levels above 200 micrograms per liter of blood than did those who did not have heart attacks. A ferritin level of 200 or greater more than doubled the relative risk of a heart attack in the study.
Typical ferritin levels for pre-menopausal women are from 25 to 50 micrograms and for adult males from 100 to 150 micrograms."
Source article NY Times -
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7DB173DF93BA3575AC0A964958260
my ferritin was only 39 (lowside of "normal" range hence the reason im taking some iron)
lskdmf wrote:
Currently taking iron supplements. Ferritin low-normal but not anemic yet.Was told Iron is linked to increase heart attack/heart disease risk?
I imagine this is just a mere association of iron and heart disease because people from these studies with lots of iron perhaps have just eaten lots of red meat, other unhealthy foods, therefore it's the unhealthy fatty foods they've been eating that are increasing risk of heart disease, not the iron. Am I right?
No. Too much iron is toxic. Too little iron is very detrimental to your health.
This is pretty much the rule for the human body. You do not want a body temperature of 105 degrees OR 90 degrees.
As you are iron deficient, supplement with iron for a period of time and retest. Or cook food in iron pans/pots.
39 is really far away from 200. doctors are pretty stupid when it comes to distance runners and iron. please take iron supplements. you will race/run SO much better when your ferritin gets to 100.
assuming we're talking about the same stats, the "reference range" is 20-345 ng/mL. Mine was Ferritin 39 ng/mL