Erythropoietin is a protein that helps the body produce red blood cells. Doctors may test erythropoietin levels in people with anemia or other blood disorders. Learn more about it here.

Erythropoietin is a hormone secreted by kidneys in response to low oxygen levels ... Consume a diet rich in iron containing foods such as greens, meats, eggs, cereals and vegetables. Published ...

Purpose. The treatment of cancer-induced anemia with erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs) is reviewed. Summary. Before the introduction of ESAs, the only treatment option for cancer-related ...

Interest in a possible positive association between erythropoietin treatment and survival was fueled by a prospective, randomized, double-blind, allocation-concealed, multinational study of 375 anemic ...

Effect of erythropoietin levels on mortality in old age: the Leiden 85-plus Study. Canadian Medical Association Journal , 2010; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.100347 Cite This Page : ...

In mixed lymphocyte reactions, erythropoietin had dose-dependent inhibitory effects on the proliferation, expansion and interferon (IFN)-γ production of human CD4 + T cells but did not induce ...

Reference: Chiu DKC, Zhang X, Cheng BYL, et al. Tumor-derived erythropoietin acts as an immunosuppressive switch in cancer immunity. Science. 2025;388(6745):eadr3026. doi: 10.1126/science.adr3026.

Because low plasma erythropoietin levels are present in anemia of prematurity, it has been theorized that enhancing erythropoiesis with recombinant erythropoietin (rhEPO) would reduce the need for ...

HONOLULU — Erythropoietin did not reduce the risk for death or severe disability among infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy already being treated with hypothermia, according to the ...

Erythropoietin, a treatment for newborns with critically low levels of oxygen or blood supply to the brain at birth, ... ‘Junk food’ plant diets raise heart risk even if meat is cut out.

To the Editor: Casadevall et al. (Feb. 14 issue)1 reported 13 cases of pure red-cell aplasia and antierythropoietin antibodies in European patients who received recombinant erythropoietin (epoetin ...