Chronic anemia

Anemia of chronic disease or anemia of chronic inflammation is a form of anemia seen in chronic infection, chronic immune activation, and malignancy. These conditions all produce elevation of interleukin-6, which stimulates hepcidin production and release from the liver, which in turn shuts down ferroportin, a protein that controls export of iron from the gut and from iron storing cells (e.g. [Source: Wikipedia ]