Excessive blood loss. 1  Blood loss from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the most common cause of IDA in adult men and postmenopausal women. 2  Blood loss due to menorrhagia is the most common cause of iron deficiency in pre-menopausal women.
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
While the Monroe Doctrine had sought to prevent European intervention, the Roosevelt Corollary was used to justify US intervention throughout the hemisphere. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt renounced interventionism and established his Good Neighbor policy for the Western Hemisphere.