Iron deficiency anemia : recommended guidelines for the prevention, detection, and management among U.S. children and women of childbearing age /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Authors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Prevention, Detection, and Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia Among U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board
Other Authors: Earl, Robert O., Woteki, Catherine E., Calloway, Doris Howes
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Iron deficiency anemia > United States.
Iron deficiency anemia in children > United States.
Women > Diseases.
Children.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Human beings.
Child
Anemia, Hypochromic
Women's Health
Female
Humans
Anémie ferriprive > États-Unis.
Anémie ferriprive chez l'enfant > États-Unis.
Femmes > Maladies.
Enfants.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
Êtres humains.
children (people by age group)
Homo sapiens (species)
MEDICAL > Hematology.
Women > Health and hygiene
Children
Iron deficiency anemia
Iron deficiency anemia in children
Women > Diseases
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Committee's charge and approach
  • Major issues
  • Defining anemia
  • Prevalence of anemia as a public health problem
  • Implications of research on excess iron intake
  • Developing screening and intervention guidelines
  • Intervention strategies: efficacy and safety
  • Supplementation for infants and children
  • Supplementation for women
  • Safety
  • Recommended guidelines for prevention, detection and management of iron deficiency anemia
  • Infants and children
  • Nonpregnant women of childbearing age
  • Pregnant women
  • Comments and caution about cutoff values for laboratory tests
  • Comments and caution about routine use of ferritin values
  • Recommended guidelines for preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia in infants and children
  • Recommended guidelines for preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia in nonpregnant women of childbearing age
  • Recommended guidelines for preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women
  • Recommendations for research
  • Efficacy of routine iron supplementation during pregnancy
  • Research base for public policy.
  • (cont) Iron deficiency anemia: a synthesis of current scientific knowledge and U.S. recommendations for prevention and treatment / Peter R. Dallman
  • Iron-dependent pathologies / John L. Beard
  • Dietary iron: trends in the iron content of foods, use of supplemental iron and the framework for regulation of iron in the diet
  • Committee and staff biographies.

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