A new radioisotope method to measure iron absorption from the whole diet was used in this study. The method is based on the concept that food iron is absorbed from two pools, the heme iron pool and the nonheme iron pool, which can be especially labeled with two radioiron isotopes given as hemoglobin and as an iron salt. The purpose of this study was to test the accuracy of this two-pool extrins...

BACKGROUND Inhabitants of agrarian villages of rural Cambodia suffer from high prevalences of iron deficiency and anemia in the context of a monotonous diet. OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of placebo Khmer fish sauce to that of 10 mL of fish sauce containing 10 mg of iron, added to daily school meals either as NaFe-EDTA or as FeSO4+ citrate. METHODS 140 students aged 6-21 year...

Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) is a serious public health issue involving large number of population around the globe especially from the developing countries. In Pakistan, the iron deficiency is a crucial nutritional problem and almost one fifth of country’s women are suffering. For community based management of IDA, iron fortification in various food commodities is considered to be the best ap...

Using varied study designs (none of which can confirm causality), investigators assessed the health impact wheat flour fortification after it was implemented at large scale in countries. Folic acid most studied nutrient and outcomes were neural tube defects, cancer, folate status, deficiency, anemia, iron hemoglobin iron-deficiency anemia (IDA). For all these except IDA, majority studies showed...

Most micronutrient deficiencies affect relatively few people in the Caribbean; however, many Caribbean residents are affected by anemia that appears due primarily to a lack of dietary iron. While generally substantial, the prevalences of such anemia have differed a good deal from place to place and study to study, observed rates ranging from 27% to 75% in pregnant women, 19% to 55% in lactating...

Despite worldwide economic and scientific development, more than a quarter of the world's population remains anemic, and about half of this burden is a result of iron deficiency anemia (IDA). IDA is most prevalent among preschool children and women. Among women, iron supplementation improves physical and cognitive performance, work productivity, and well-being, and iron during pregnancy improve...