Many diseases, different nutritional, metabolic and hormonal changes, ageing and drugs
can alter cognitive functions. Anemia via cerebral hypoxia and other possible mechanisms
has been suggested to have a great influence on cognition. Iron deficiency anemia, the most
common form of anemia, has been suggested to result in cognitive deterioration and
alteration of neurological functions. Previous studies resulted in significant discrepancies
considering correlation between anemia and cognitive achievement mainly because …