Iron deficiency anemia
Anemia
Anemia can be caused by inadequate production of red blood cells, increased destructions, or excessive loss. Iron deficiency anemia is a common cause in menstruating women.
Sickele-Cell Anemia ia one one of the most common genetic blood disorders.
In developing countries located in tropical climates, the most common cause of iron deficiency anemia is infestation with hookworm.
Pernicious anemia is most common in patients of northern European descent and African Americans and less frequent in people of southern European descent and Asians. There is no sex predilection.
Pernicious anemia occurs in equal numbers in both men and women
Pernicious anemia because the stomach mucosa atrophied with age
Bleeding is the most common complication of ulcers. It may result in anemia, vomiting blood (hematemesis), or the passage of bright red blood through the rectum (melena).
Anemia is a blood disorder, but is often easily controlled and temporary. In women of childbearing age, anemia is often due to iron deficiency.
Jennifer
You are probably looking for the disease 'Sickle cell anemia'. It is most common in blacks but it doesn't mean that if you are black that you have it.