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Nutritional anemias are usually gratifying to diagnose and to treat from the point of view of the patient as well as the physician. If the diagnosis is correct the patient will, in most cases, respond quickly and completely to inexpensive and harmless medication. If it were not for the fact that a number of fairly common problems masquerade as nutritional anemias and do not respond to the therapy, this discussion on diagnosis could be abbreviated.

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  1. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Gainesville, USA

    Dr. Richard R. Streiff M.D. (Professor of Medicine)

  2. Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Dr. Richard R. Streiff M.D. (Professor of Medicine)

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA

    Lewis A. Barness M.D. (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Professor and Chairman) (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Professor and Chairman)

  2. Jacksonville, Florida, USA

    Yank D. Coble Jr. M.D. (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition) (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition)

  3. Clearwater, Florida, USA

    Donald Ian MacDonald M.D. (Member of the Florida Medical Association) (Member of the Florida Medical Association)

  4. Nutrition Division, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    George Christakis M.D., M.P.H. (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Chief) (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Chief)

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Streiff, R.R. (1981). Nutritional Anemias. In: Barness, L.A., Coble, Y.D., MacDonald, D.I., Christakis, G. (eds) Nutrition and Medical Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6695-9_27

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