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Nutrition Lecture 10: Iron Flashcards

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What are rich food sources of iron?

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Meat, pate, some seafood, red kidney beans, fortified foods

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What is bioavailability defined as?

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The proportion of intake of a nutrient that is absorbed and utilized

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What is iron bioavailability influenced by?

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  • Host-related factors
  • Chemical form (haem vs non-haem Fe)
  • Enhancers
  • Inhibitors
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What is the relationship between iron status and iron absorption?

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Increased serum ferritin decreases absorption

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What host-related factors affect iron absorption

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  • Pregnancy
  • Recent iron intake
  • Genetics
  • Disease states
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What is the absorption of Haem Fe?

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25-30%

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What is the absorption of Non-haem Fe?

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5-15%

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Haem vs non-haem iron

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  • Haem iron absorption is considerably higher
  • bigger variability in non-haem iron
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What form of iron does meat provide?

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Meat doesn’t just provide Haem iron, it provides both

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Generally, 90% of iron consumed is…

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Non-haem

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What are enhancers of iron absorption?

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  • Vitamin C (ascorbic acid?
  • Meat, fish and poultry (not eggs and milk just flesh foods)
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What are inhibitors of iron absorption?

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  • Phytate
  • Tannins (tea and coffee)
  • Oxalic acid
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Where is iron absorption of Haem iron?

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Mainly in duodenum

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How is Haem iron absorbed?

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  • Haem split from globin
  • Haem absorbed intact
  • Ferrous iron released in enterocyte
  • Joins common pool in enterocyte with NHFe
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Where is iron absorption of non-haem?

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Mainly in duodenum

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How is non-haem iron absorbed?

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  • Lumen of the gut has a neutral pH, so will be in ferric 3+ form
  • Duodenal cytochrome B reduces ferric form into ferrous form
  • Then absorbed through the DMT1
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What are the forms of iron in the body?

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  • Haemoglobin
  • Myoglobin
  • Enzyme Fe
  • Storage Fe
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What percent of body Fe is haemoglobin?

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67%

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What is the function of Haemoglobin?

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Transports O2

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What percent of body Fe is myoglobin?

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4%

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What is the function of myoglobin?

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O2 storage in tissues

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What percent of body Fe is enzyme Fe?

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0.2%

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What is the function of enzyme Fe?

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  • Energy metabolism
  • Neurotransmitter formation
  • Bacterial killing in leukocytes
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What percent of body Fe is storage Fe?

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27% - depends

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Where is Fe stored in the body?
Liver, spleen, bone marrow
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How is Fe involved in transport?
Transport Fe is in the form of transferrin (0.1% body Fe)
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How is iron excretion controlled?
Its not, all of the control is happening at the absorption step
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How is iron lost?
Epithelial cells and Fluids
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What epithelial cells lose iron?
- Skin (0.2mg) - Intestinal mucosal cells (0.1mg) - Urinary tract cells (0.1mg)
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What fluids lose iron?
- Blood in gut (0.4mg) - Bile (0.2mg) - MENSTRATION
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Men vs Women iron losses per day
Men = 1mg/day Women = 2mg/day
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Why is reutilisation of iron so important?
To form all the erythrocytes needed you would need approximately 30mg per day BUT we only absorb about 1-2mg
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Where does majority of iron reutilisation come from?
Old red blood cells in spleen and liver
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What are the concequences of iron deficiency anemia?
- Decreased growth - Behavioural disturbances - Decreased cognitive function - Fatigue - Spoon-shaped nails
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What are the consequences of the depletion of iron stores?
Can see same symptoms of anaemia - you are more at risk for anaemia
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What groups are at risk of iron deficiency?
- Pre-term infants - Infants - Toddlers - Menstruating women - Pregnant women - Blood donors
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When is there are high requirement for iron?
- Growth - Blood loss - Pregnancy
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What is recommended for people with anaemia?
Iron supplements or IV infusion
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What is recommended for people with non-anaemic iron deficiency?
Diet, supplements
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What is acute iron toxicity?
Unintentional overdose of iron tablets, Lethal oral dose = 200mg/kg
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What is hereditary haemochromatosis?
A homozygous genetic condition that causes poor control of iron absorption
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What mutation is present in people with hereditary haemochromatosis?
C282Y mutation on the HFE gene
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In people with hereditary haemochromatosis, where does iron accumulate?
In liver, pancreas and heart
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What is the EAR for iron?
Men = 6mg/day Women = 8mg/day
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What is the RDI for iron?
Men = 8mg/day Women = 18mg/day
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Why is RDI so high for women?
There is a big skew of women, because there is large variety in blood lost during menstruation between women
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How does Heme iron enter the enterocyte?
- Comes in through heme transporter - Is then acted on by the enzyme oxygenase to become non-heme iron
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What transporter brings heme iron into the enterocyte?
Heme transporter
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What enzyme converts heme iron into non-heme iron once inside the enterocyte?
Heme Oxygenase
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What form does non-heme iron arrive at the enterocyte in?
In ferric form (Fe3+)
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What enzyme transforms non-heme iron from ferric (Fe3+) to ferrous form (Fe2+)?
Duodenal cytochrome B - this is a reduction step
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How is non-heme iron (once transformed into ferrous form) transported into the enterocyte?
Through DMT1
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Once inside the enterocyte, what are the two options for iron?
1. Stored as ferritin 2. Transported out of the enterocyte
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How is iron stored as ferritin inside the enterocyte?
In muscosal ferritin
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What transporter transports iron out of the enterocyte (it is all in ferrous form)?
Ferroportin 1
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What needs to happen to ferrous iron (Fe2+) once it is transported out of the enterocyte?
Needs to be oxidised back to ferric form (Fe3+) - as ferrous form is very reactive
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How is ferrous iron (Fe2+) transformed back to ferric iron (Fe3+) outside the enterocyte?
By hephaestin
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How is newly transformed Fe3+ iron, out of the enterocyte, transported around the body?
Bound to plasma transferrin

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