Serum Hepcidin Concentration in Relation to Iron Deficiency in Ain Shams Athletes

Abstract

The combination of nutrition and exercise is necessary to deal with health and preventing diseases. By combining both disciplines we study, how nutrition can contribute to the recovery of the body after intensive exercise. Iron deficiency is a frequent and multifactorial disorder in the career of athletes, particularly in females. Exercise-induced disturbances in iron homeostasis produce deleterious effects on performance and adaptation to training. Thus, the identification of strategies that restore or maintain iron homeostasis in athletes is required Hemolysis as well as hepcidin response are the leading factors for this deficiency. Knowing that exercise induce inflammatory state and that hepcidin is affected by cytokine release, this hypothesis may be one of the causes of iron deficiency in atheletes. The study included two groups, Group 1 included 23 medical athlete students with low serum iron level. Group 2 included 31 medical athlete students with normal serum iron level. There was no significant difference was observed between studied groups regarding BMI, WC, Hip circumference and WHr and the hemoglobin level. However