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Iron intakes and status of 2‐year‐old children in the Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study

Overview of attention for article published in Maternal & Child Nutrition, August 2016
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Title
Iron intakes and status of 2‐year‐old children in the Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study
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Maternal & Child Nutrition, August 2016
DOI 10.1111/mcn.12320
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Elaine K McCarthy, Carol ní Chaoimh, Jonathan O'B Hourihane, Louise C Kenny, Alan D Irvine, Deirdre M Murray, Mairead Kiely

Abstract

Young children are at risk of iron deficiency and subsequent anaemia, resulting in long-term consequences for cognitive, motor and behavioural development. This study aimed to describe the iron intakes, status and determinants of status in 2-year-old children. Data were collected prospectively in the mother-child Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study from 15 weeks' gestation throughout early childhood. At the 24-month assessment, serum ferritin, haemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume were measured, and food/nutrient intake data were collected using a 2-day weighed food diary. Iron status was assessed in 729 children (median [IQR] age: 2.1 [2.1, 2.2] years) and 468 completed a food diary. From the food diary, mean (SD) iron intakes were 6.8 (2.6) mg/day and 30% had intakes < UK Estimated Average Requirement (5.3 mg/day). Using WHO definitions, iron deficiency was observed in 4.6% (n = 31) and iron deficiency anaemia in five children (1.0%). Following an iron series workup, five more children were diagnosed with iron deficiency anaemia. Twenty-one per cent had ferritin concentrations <15 µg/L. Inadequate iron intakes (OR [95% CI]: 1.94 [1.09, 3.48]) and unmodified cows' milk intakes ≥ 400 mL/day (1.95 [1.07, 3.56]) increased the risk of low iron status. Iron-fortified formula consumption was associated with decreased risk (0.21 [0.11, 0.41] P < 0.05). In this, the largest study in toddlers in Europe, a lower prevalence of low iron status was observed than in previous reports. Compliance with dietary recommendations to limit cows' milk intakes in young children and consumption of iron-fortified products appears to have contributed to improved iron status at two years.

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Unknown 109 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 17%
Student > Bachelor 14 13%
Other 7 6%
Researcher 7 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 6%
Other 21 19%
Unknown 34 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Unspecified 2 2%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 35 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 July 2018.
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#4,081,571
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Outputs of similar age from Maternal & Child Nutrition
#8
of 31 outputs
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