Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.