Baseline Iron Indices as Predictors of Hemoglobin Improvement in Anemic Vietnamese Women Receiving Weekly Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation and Deworming
| Autor: | Gerard J. Casey, Lachlan MacGregor, Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Nong T Tien, Seema Mihrshahi, Beverley Biggs, Antonio Montresor, Tran Q. Phuc |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Anemia Iron Context (language use) Gastroenterology Article Deworming Folic Acid Pregnancy Virology Internal medicine medicine Humans Soluble transferrin receptor Anthelmintics biology business.industry medicine.disease Ferritin Infectious Diseases Vietnam Iron-deficiency anemia Dietary Supplements Cohort Immunology biology.protein Female Parasitology Hemoglobin business |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 81:1114-1119 |
| ISSN: | 1476-1645 0002-9637 |
| Popis: | Iron deficiency anemia is a highly prevalent problem among women living in rural Vietnam. However, the utility and cutoffs of indices for diagnosing iron deficiency anemia in the public health context are ill-defined. We sought to assess the ability of iron indices to predict the haemoglobin response (HBR) to weekly iron-folic acid supplementation (WIFS) in anemic rural Vietnamese women. We compared haemoglobin, serum ferritin and soluble transferrin receptor in a cohort of 221 non-pregnant women of reproductive age before and after three months of WIFS and deworming. At baseline, anemia (Hb |
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