Iron and folate supplements during pregnancy.
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Iron and folate supplements during pregnancy: supplementing everyone treats those at risk and is cost effective.
Iron and folate depletion in pregnancy Most women are unable to meet the demands of expanding red cell mass and fetal growth in pregnancy without depleting their stores of iron,3'5 and diet, even in developed countries, contains insufficient folic acid to prevent a reduction in tissue folate concentrations.67 As a result some pregnant women become anaemic. Supplements of 30-100 mg elemental iro...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.298.6666.118-c