**Meet the editor**

Dr. Luis Rodrigo MD is actually Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He has been the Chief of Gastroenterology Service at the HUCA Hospital in Oviedo, for more than 40 years. He obtained the PhD at 1975 and has developed a long Teaching and Research Career. He has published a total of 575 scientific papers, 297 written in English and the rest in Spanish.

He has participated as main investigator in a total of 45 Clinical Trials and has directed 40 Doctoral Thesis. He has contributed actively to the formation of around one hundred specialist in Gastroenterology working in his Hospital and another hospitals in Spain and aboad. He has written around of 35 chapters in books of several subjects and has been the editor of 22 books in his speciality and related diseases.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Iron-Deficiency Anemia 1**

**Concentrations 39**

Yangho Kim

Chapter 4 **Vegetal Sources of Iron 53**

Mario Ruiz-Lopez

Chapter 5 **Heart Failure and Iron Deficiency 67**

Maestrini and Carmen Caira

Claudia Burz, Andrei Cismaru, Vlad Pop and Anca Bojan

Chapter 3 **Effect of Iron Deficiency on the Increased Blood Divalent Metal**

Chapter 6 **Neurocognitive Dysfunctions in Iron Deficiency Patients 83**

Roberto Miniero, Valentina Talarico, Maria Concetta Galati, Laura

Elia Hermila Valdes-Miramontes, Ramon Rodriguez-Macias and

Francesco Fedele, Alessandra Cinque, Massimo Mancone, Viviana

Elena Zhukovskaya, Alexander Karelin and Alexander Rumyantsev

Chapter 2 **Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children 23**

Giancotti, Paola Saracco and Giuseppe Raiola
