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Iron deficiency: Which Medications Are Safest? (100 Drugs Compared)

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100 medications are used for Iron deficiency, with 1,838 combined adverse event reports. The most reported drugs for Iron deficiency are FERROUS and FERRIC CARBOXYMALTOSE.

1,838
Total Reports
100
Drugs Used

All Medications for Iron deficiency Ranked by Safety Reports

Drug Brand Reports Deaths (all) Hosp. (all) Death Rate
FERROUS Ferrous Sulfate 465 517 1,870 12.7%
FERRIC CARBOXYMALTOSE Injectafer 396 205 1,670 2.5%
SODIUM FERRIC COMPLEX Ferrlecit 333 293 405 23.6%
IRON SUCROSE Iron Sucrose 227 277 1,107 5.9%
SUCROSE Saccharum Officinale 90 91 69 84.3%
IRON DEXTRAN INFED 77 43 96 5.6%
IRON Pancreas Meteoric Iron 53 325 932 11.9%
FERRIC MALTOL ACCRUFER 47 10 47 2.4%
IRON ISOMALTOSIDE 1000 - 46 10 85 3.9%
FERUMOXYTOL NON-STOICHIOMETRIC MAGNETITE Feraheme 40 51 169 4.6%
FERRIC DERISOMALTOSE Monoferric 38 26 155 2.5%
POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS - 28 384 837 21.4%
POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 4000 - 20 246 521 25.0%
FERINJECT - 15 3 23 4.1%
IRON POLYMALTOSE - 14 13 111 5.1%
ASCORBIC ACID\FERROUS - 13 18 58 13.4%
SODIUM Sodium Chloride 13 1,550 6,212 6.6%
ASCORBIC ACID\POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 3350\POTASSIUM\SODIUM ASCORBATE\SODIUM\SODIUM - 12 145 507 7.4%
DARBEPOETIN ALFA ARANESP 11 13,865 14,279 42.3%
OCTREOTIDE Octreotide Acetate 11 5,003 7,779 21.1%

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