en Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Pediatric Hematology & Oncology پژوهشي Original Article <p></p> <div style="direction: ltr;"></div> <div style="direction: ltr;">Background: Iron deficiency, is a common worldwide complication, especially in preschool children. Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is associated with changes in the mental and motor development, defects of immune system, cardiovascular, diseases and disruption of lipid profile. In IDA, the occurrence of dyslipidemia is controversial. We aimed to investigate the association between IDA and serum lipid concentration.</div> <div style="direction: ltr;"><strong>Methods: In this comparative cross-sectional study, 41 children with confimed IDA and 39 healthy children were evaluated. Hemoglobin, Hematocrit, serum ferritin level, triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and anthropometric indices including weight, height, and body mass index were assessed.</strong></div> <div style="direction: ltr;">Results: The mean&plusmn;SD age of children with IDA and control group were 10.7&plusmn;3.5 years and 9.5&plusmn;3.2 years, respectively (P=0.45). Mean&plusmn;SD serum lipid profile in control vs IDA groups were as follows: TG (86.1&plusmn;36.9 vs 88.6&plusmn;33.5 mg/dl), TC (151.7&plusmn;28.7 vs 148.9&plusmn;29.2 mg/dl), LDL (78.4&plusmn;29.1 vs 88.1&plusmn;22.6 mg/dl) and HDL (54.2&plusmn;13.1 vs 52.5&plusmn;10.1 mg/dl). The results showed no statistically significant difference between IDA and control groups. Slightly increased but not significant TG and LDL levels were observed in the IDA group compared with the control group.</div> <div style="direction: ltr;">Conclusions: Theses findings indicated that there was no significant difference between IDA and control group in terms of serum lipid concentrations.</div> Iron deficiency, Anemia, Serum Lipid Profile, Children 112 115 http://ijbc.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-223-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ghasem Miri-Aliabad gh_miri@yahoo.com 10031947532846004003 10031947532846004003 Yes Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Children and Adolescent Health Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. Alireza Dahipour ardashipoor@yahoo.com 10031947532846004004 10031947532846004004 No Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. Ali Khajeh aliyavar2005@yahoo.com 10031947532846004005 10031947532846004005 No Department of Pediatric, Children and Adolescent Health Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. Mahdiyeh Shahmoradzade m.shahmoradzade@yahoo.com 10031947532846004006 10031947532846004006 No General Physician, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.