Contributors
Hanin Ghrayeb: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Mazen Elias: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Jeries Nashashibi: Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Awni Youssef: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Mari Manal: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administration
Liala Mahagna: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administration
Masalha Refaat: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administration
Naama Schwartz: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Methodology
Adi Elias:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2634-8086
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Emanuele Bobbio: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
4
June
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0234209
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Internal Medicine C, Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
[2
]
Rapaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
[3
]
Department of Internal Medicine D, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
[4
]
Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine, Azrieli Faculty of medicine, Safed, Israel
[5
]
Nazareth Tower Out Patients Clinic Ambulatory, Clalit, Nazareth, Israel
[6
]
Endocrine laboratory, HaEmek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
[7
]
Clinical Research Unit, HaEmek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
[8
]
Department of Internal Medicine B, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SWEDEN
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-20-07962
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234209
PMC ID: 7272047
PubMed ID: 32497136
SO-VID: 63d556f6-6471-4075-b563-93de7441d5a1
Copyright © © 2020 Ghrayeb et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 19
March
2020
Date
accepted
: 20
May
2020
Page count
Figures: 2,
Tables: 5,
Pages: 14
Funding
The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Hormones
Subject:
Peptide Hormones
Subject:
Ghrelin
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Hematology
Subject:
Anemia
Subject:
Iron Deficiency Anemia
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Proteins
Subject:
Hemoglobin
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pharmacology
Subject:
Routes of Administration
Subject:
Intravenous Injections
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Proteins
Subject:
Protein Complexes
Subject:
Ferritin
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Hormones
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Malnutrition
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Malnutrition
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
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