The World Health Organization considers anemia in adults to be present when the hemoglobin (Hb) of men is <13 g/dL and of women is <12 g/dL (1). The average lower limit of a normal Hb for men and women together, therefore, is about 12.5 g/dL, and anything less than this would be considered to be anemia. In a study of 32,229 consecutive patients admitted to 263 United States hospitals with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) (the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry [ADHERE] study), the mean Hb was 12.4 g/dL and the mean serum creatinine was 1.8 mg/dL (2) (roughly equivalent to a calculated creatinine clearance of about 40 mL/min/1.73 m2). Clearly, then, about half the patients admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of CHF in the U.S. have anemia and, since a creatinine clearance of <60 mL/min/1.73 m2 is considered to be chronic kidney insufficiency (CKI), the great majority also have CKI. © 2008 Springer-Verlag London.
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Silverberg, D. S., Wexler, D., Iaina, A., & Schwartz, D. (2008). Role of anemia in acute and chronic heart failure and the role of erythropoietin in its correction. In Acute Heart Failure (pp. 519–527). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-782-4_48
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