Women of reproductive age are at a high risk of iron deficiency, often as a result of diets low in bioavailable iron. In some settings, the iron content of domestic groundwater sources is high, yet its contribution to iron intake and status has not been examined. In a rural Bangladeshi population of women deficient in dietary iron, we evaluated the association between groundwater iron intake an...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of anemia and iron status among Chilean women of childbearing age between 1981 and 2010. MATERIALS AND METHODS Calculation of the prevalence of anemia and iron status was based on multiple cross-sectional iron absorption studies performed in 888 women during this period of time. All studies included measurements of hemoglobin, mean corpuscular volume, zin...

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS I967 during late foetal development and the amount of folate in the liver. However, the mean birth weight of Asians is less than that of English babies born in Bradford and at all gestational ages the individual birth weights of Asians were nearly always relatively low; there was a relatively high proportion of Asian babies in which the amount of iron in the liver was smal...

The brain uses iron for many essential processes (1-4). The extent of iron utilization is heavily dependent on local functional requirements, leading to significant variations in tissue iron concentrations throughout the brain (5-7). This was graphically illustrated nearly a century ago in the first colour illustrations of the differential distribution of iron throughout the brain architecture,...

BACKGROUND Anemia is one of the most common public health problems especially in developing countries. We investigated the prevalence of anemia, iron deficiency anemia and related risk factors in adolescent school girls in Kavar urban area in southern Iran. METHODS A total of 363 adolescent school girls were evaluated by a cross sectional study. Socioeconomic, demographic and related risk fac...

introduction: in the literature pica is reported to be prevalent in pregnant women, who, reported to have eaten substances that were clearly not foods but some thing which has been defined as “pica”. pica is an eating disorder, which may cause severe problems such as chemicals or heavy metals (e.g. lead) toxicity, intestinal obstruction and iron deficiency anaemia. this study was conducted to d...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends screening for anemia between the ages of 9 to 12 months with additional screening between the ages of 1 and 5 years for patients at risk. The screening may be universal or selective depending on the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in the population. Improved infant rearing practices-including wider availability, acceptance, and use of iro...

BACKGROUND Women who inherit heterozygosity for the C282Y mutation of the HFE gene may have increased serum iron indices and hemoglobin and are less likely to develop iron deficiency compared with women with the wild-type genotype. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 497 women 20-44 years of age and 830 women >51 years of age drawn from the Busselton (Australia) population stud...