In total, there were 162,873 patients with all ICD-10 coded forms of leukemia, with 5,710 (3.51%) having IDA. Furthermore, this cohort was found to be older than non-IDA leukemia patients (71.1 ± 0.45 years and 59.2 ± 0.71 years with p < 0.05, respectively). With inpatient ...
Patients were stratified into those with and without nutritional anemia (16.19% vs 83.81%) which included iron, B12, folate deficiency and other nutritional anemia per ICD-10 coding. Mortality was the primary outcome of the study whereas length of stay (LOS), total treatment cost, acute kidney...