Lesson of the week: prevalence of concomitant disease in patients with iron deficiency anaemia

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Abstract
Clinically important concomitant disease, such as benign upper gastrointestinal disease associated with colonic cancer, has been reported in up to 7% of anaemic patients,1 2 3 yet combined upper and lower gastrointestinal investigations are carried out in only a minority of cases with iron deficiency anaemia.4

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