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In fact the most common cause of microcytic anemia is iron deficiency, and in low risk patients physicians often confirm the diagnosis of iron deficiency as the cause by a good response to iron therapy.
Macrocytic anemia is not a disease in the sense of having a single pathology but, rather, is a condition. As such, it is the class name for a set of pathologies that all produce somewhat the same red blood cell abnormality. Many specific pathologies are known which result in macrocytic-type anemias.