Female Athletes and Iron Deficiency

Iron is important to athletes.Iron deficiency among athletes has been a hot point in the study of sports medicine.As for the female's physical characteristics factors of menstruation and eating habits,training,gastrointestinal tract and other,female athletes is the high incidence crowd of iron deficiency.Therefore,a great attention to the female athletes' iron deficiency should be paid.At present,heme iron is used for the treatment of iron deficiency among female athletes,which is better in effect than the non-heme iron.