Let’s Have A Conversation About Iron-Deficiency Anaemia

Your red blood cells have a simple but vital task: to transport oxygen from the lungs to the rest of your body. The cells of your body will utilize oxygen to convert the foods you have consumed into energy. This energy is then used to power your  body’s numerous functions—from more obvious ones such as movement to ‘hidden’ ones such as digestion of your foods, breathing, enabling the heart to keep beating, and more.

Just imagine: what happens when you don’t have enough red blood cells in your system? Prof Dr Nazimah Idris, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, IMU University & Medical Director of IMU Healthcare, tells us more.

Find out more at Let’s Have A Conversation About Iron-Deficiency Anaemia (Health Today, Sept-Oct Issue).