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Can severe anemia and osteoporosis cause darker bones?

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Darker bones: I might have answered this already - not sure. The simple answer is NO! but you need to carefully control your anemia and also have bone density testing. Treatment of anemia should not affect any medicine for osteoporosis if your health and lab bone data is OK

Answered 12/22/2014

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