ferritin

A CBC is a specific and very common lab test and does not include a ferritin level.

If you're an older adult with high ferritin levels (genetic or oterhwise), you should avoid cast iron.

Iron and ferritin levels are normal, and CRP is low, indicating no significant inflammation.

My hemoglobin was always in range (albeit lower, but the screeners had no problems passing me along) however my ferritin was crashed.

They check hemoglobin levels before donation in the US, but they don’t check ferritin (it’s a less commonly run test in general).

You can feel awful if your hemoglobin is OK but your ferritin is low.

High ferritin has been linked with hepatic injury, cancer, and a other endocrine disorders.

For people with hemochromatosis, I have observed cognitive ability swings as they have their ferritin levels adjusted.

I got a complete iron panel done (amongst other stuff) and my ferritin was something like 20.

They did an iron panel and her serum ferritin was only three.

See if your ferritin level has been recorded in the past as a baseline, because the one-level-fits-all approach is flawed (and especially for women).

Pylori is well known to impact iron absorption and serum iron/ferritin levels.

> [...] > Update: In April 2023, a trial of a vaccine where the “stalk” domain of influenza HA is repetitively arrayed on ferritin provided yet another convincing confirmation of the breadth and durability of antibody responses to Bachmann immunogens (Widge et al).

Oh God this is going to be really bad, there are so so so many misannotated genes, even well known ones that have more or less "wrong names"[0], that a lot of lazy scientists are going to either be led astray or totally miss targets as a result from an uncritically science-believing LLM [0] do you really really think ferritin is best described as an "iron carrier"?

I had to explicitly ask for Vit D and Iron/Ferritin to be added to the default bunch of tests on my decennial check-up as I was constantly tired.