Table 3.
Anemia types, vitamin B12 and folic acid deficiencies, hyperhomocysteinemia, and gastric parietal cell antibody (GPCA) positivity in 80 anemic burning mouth syndrome (BMS) patients with iron deficiency (ID/BMS patients).
| Anemia type | Patient number (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient number (%) | Mean corpuscular volume (fL) | Vitamin B12 deficiency (<200 pg/mL) | Folic acid deficiency (<4 ng/mL) | Hyperhomo-cysteinemia (>12.3 μM) | GPCA positivity | |
| ID/BMS patients (n = 143) | ||||||
| Pernicious anemia | 5 (6.3) | ≥100 | 5 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (100.0) | 5 (100.0) |
| Other macrocytic anemia | 5 (6.3) | ≥100 | 1 (20.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (40.0) | 2 (40.0) |
| Normocytic anemia | 42 (52.5) | 80.0–99.9 | 2 (4.8) | 2 (4.8) | 24 (57.1) | 2 (4.8) |
| Iron deficiency anemia | 21 (26.3) | <80 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (4.8) |
| Thalassemia trait-induced anemia | 7 (8.8) | <74 | 1 (14.3) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (28.6) | 1 (14.3) |
| Total | 80 (100.0) | 9 (11.3) | 2 (2.5) | 33 (41.3) | 11 (13.8) | |