Table 3.
Anemia types, iron and folic acid deficiencies, hyperhomocysteinemia, and gastric parietal cell antibody (GPCA) positivity in 26 anemic burning mouth syndrome (BMS) patients with vitamin B12 deficiency (B12D/BMS patients).
| Anemia type | Patient number (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient number (%) | Mean corpuscular volume (fL) | Iron deficiency (<60 μg/dL) | Folic acid deficiency (<4 ng/mL) | Hyperhomo-cysteinemia (>12.3 μM) | GPCA positivity | |
| B12D/BMS patients (n = 42) | ||||||
| Pernicious anemia | 15 (57.7) | ≥100 | 5 (33.3) | 0 (0) | 15 (100.0) | 15 (100.0) |
| Other macrocytic anemia | 5 (19.2) | ≥100 | 1 (20.0) | 0 (0) | 5 (100.0) | 0 (0) |
| Normocytic anemia | 4 (15.4) | 80.0–99.9 | 2 (50.0) | 0 (0) | 4 (100.0) | 1 (25.0) |
| Thalassemia trait-induced anemia | 2 (7.7) | <74 | 1 (50.0) | 0 (0) | 2 (100.0) | 0 (0) |
| Total | 26 (100.0) | 9 (34.6) | 0 (0) | 26 (100.0) | 16 (61.5) | |