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Factors associated with iron deficiency anemia in Brazilian preschool children.

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Title
Factors associated with iron deficiency anemia in Brazilian preschool children.
Published in
Jornal de Pediatria, May 2004
DOI 10.2223/1188
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Authors

Carlos A N de Almeida, Rubens G Ricco, Luiz A del Ciampo, Ana M Souza, Adriana P Pinho, José E Dutra de Oliveira

Abstract

To examine the determining factors of anemia and iron deficiency in children attending two day care centers in the town of Pontal, southeast of Brazil. Cross-sectional study was conducted in 192 children aged 12 to 72 months. Personal data (age, sex, use of medicinal iron supplements, duration of breast-feeding, type of delivery, prenatal care, weight, and height), and socioeconomic data (number of co-inhabitants, parental schooling, and per capita family income) were obtained and evaluated together with hemoglobin, serum transferrin receptor, ferritin, and iron deficiency anemia. Age was the variable that most affected iron nutritional status, with higher hemoglobin values, lower transferrin receptor concentrations, higher ferritin values and lower iron deficiency anemia being detected with increasing age. The other studied variables did not show any correlation with iron nutritional status. The obtained data suggest that control strategies for this preschool population should be especially directed at younger children.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 7%
Unknown 28 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 20%
Other 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Researcher 3 10%
Professor 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 10 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 15 50%