Diagnostic Utility of Complete Blood Count Indices in Ferritin-Defined Microcytosis Among United States Women Aged 18-49 Years.
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 distinguish ferritin-defined iron-deficient from n...