The effects of iron-deficiency anaemia on workers productivity were studied in a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. The quantity of tea picked per day was studied before and after iron supplementation or placebo treatment. After one month's treatment significantly more tea was picked when the haemoglobin (Hb) concentration was increased by iron supplementation than when it was not. The degree of impr...

Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional disorder in the world. To determine the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) and associated social and nutritional factors, two primary school students from different socioeconomic status in Malatya province center, in Turkey, were evaluated by using hematocrit and peripheral blood smears. Total of 1633 students of two primary schools -Hanim...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between maternal anaemia and adverse maternal and infant outcomes, and to assess the feasibility of conducting epidemiological studies through the Indian Obstetric Surveillance System-Assam (IndOSS-Assam). DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using anonymised hospital records. Exposure: maternal iron deficiency anaemia; outcomes: postpartum haemorrhage (PPH)...

on a positive balance between intestinal absorption and loss from the body. Iron deficiency is a common cause of anaemia (Kilpatrick, 1961) and in women is often associated with high levels of menstrual blood loss (Jacobs and Butler, 1965). When menstrual loss is increased iron balance must be maintained either by a diet with a high iron content or by an increase in the proportion absorbed by t...

Anaemia is one of the major public health problems affecting more than half of school children along the coast in Tanzania. Due to the multiplicity of its causes it sometimes becomes difficult to find appropriate intervention measures. In order to assist schools in implementing appropriate public health measures for anaemia in Tanga Region of Tanzania risk factors were investigated in school ch...

BACKGROUND Iron deficiency is a common nutritional deficiency amongst women of childbearing age. Peri-partum iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is associated with significant maternal, fetal and infant morbidity. Current options for treatment are limited: these include oral iron supplementation, which can be ineffective and poorly tolerated, and red blood cell transfusions, which carry an inherent r...

Iron deficiency is the most common micronutrient deficiency in the world, affecting approximately one-quarter of the world’s population [1]. It is also very common among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), affecting a majority of patients [2–5]. Iron deficiency in CKD arises from a combination of poor dietary iron intake, impaired absorption of iron by the gut, and greater iron losses, ...

Severe anaemia is a common presentation in non-pregnant adults admitted to hospital in southern Africa. Standard syndromic treatment based on data from the pre-HIV era is for iron deficiency, worms and malaria. We prospectively investigated 105 adults admitted consecutively to medical wards with haemoglobin < 7 g/dl. Those with acute blood loss were excluded. Patients were investigated for poss...

Anaemia is usually defined in terms of a reduction in the concentration ofhaemoglobin or the number of red cells in the peripheral blood. In the community at large, iron deficiency is by far the most common cause of anaemia. The symptoms of iron deficiency anaemia are said to depend on three factors: the causative disorder, the reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, and the disturbances...

Changes in the oral epithelium in irondeficiency anaemia have long been recognized, and the clinical picture of glossitis and stomatitis, sometimes in association with dysphagia, is especially familiar in women with "idiopathic" hypochromic anaemia (Paterson, 1919). Waldenstrom (1938) has shown that these changes may occur in cases of occult iron deficiency in which anaemia has not yet develope...