Prevalence of anemia among school-children from Rio Acima (State of Minas Gerais, Brazil): Use of the standardized prevalence method and evaluation of iron deficiency

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1617-1624

  Norton, R C ^a   Figueiredo, R C P ^a   Diamante, R ^a   Goulart, E M A ^a   Mota, J A C ^a   Viana, M B ^a   Penna, F J ^a   Leao E ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anemia; Iron deficiency; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BRAZIL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0030325439     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Dallman PR, Yip R & Johnson C (1984). Prevalence and causes of anemia in the United States, 1976 to 1980. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 39: 437-445.
2. Demaeyer EM & Adiels-Tegman M (1985). The prevalence of anemia in the world. World Health Statistics Quarterly, 38:302-316.
3. Martin LMM, Fernandez FS, Brito GG, Barroso MLB, Vila LM, Paulis RC & Hernandez Nieto LH (1989). Prevalencia de ferropenia e anemia ferropénica en la población escolar rural, entre quatro e dieciséis anos. Anales Españoles de Pediatria, 30: 159-162.
4. Monteiro CA & Szarfarc SC (1987). Estudo das condições de saúde das crianças no municïpio de São Paulo, SP (Brasil), 1984-1985. V. Anemia. Revista de Saúde Públics, 21: 255-260.
5. Turconi SJ & Turconi VL (1992). Anemia ferropriva: incidencia em uma população infantil. Pediatria Modems, 28: 107-114.
6. Molina MCB, Gross R, Schell B, Leão MAC, Strack U & Brunken B (1989). Nutritional status of children of low-income communities, Brazil (1986). Revista de Saúde Pública, 23: 89-97.
7. Araüjo RL, Araújo MB, Sieiro RO, Machado RDP & Leite BV (1986). Diagnóstico de hipovitaminose e anemia nutricional. Estudo realizado na população do Vale do Jequitinhonha. Minas Gerais. Revista Brasileira de Medicine, 43: 225-228.
8. Ritchey AK (1987). Iron deficiency in children: Update on an old problem. Postgraduate Medicine, 82: 59-69.
9. Schultink W, Gross R, Gliwitzki M, Karyadi D & Matulassi P (1995). Effect of daily vs twice weekly iron supplementation in Indonesian preschool children with low iron status. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 61: 111-115.
10. Walter T, De Andraca I, Chadud P & Perales CG (1989). Iron deficiency anemia: adverse effects on infant psychomotor development. Pediatrics, 84: 7-17.
11. Oski FA (1993). Iron deficiency in infancy and childhood. New England Journal of Medicine, 329: 190-193.
12. Valberg LS, Serbie J, Ludwig J & Pelletier O (1976). Serum ferritin and iron status of Canadians. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 114: 417-452.
13. Mentzer WC (1973). Differentiation of iron deficiency from thalassemia trait. Lancet. 1: 882.
14. England JM & Fraser PM (1973). Differentiation of iron deficiency from thalassemia trait by routine blood count. Lancet 1: 449-452.
15. Dallman PR & Siimes MA (1979). Percentile curves for hemoglobin and red cell volume in infancy and childhood. Journal of Pediatrics, 94: 26-31.
16. Dallman PR, Yip R & Oski F (1993). Iron deficiency and related nutritional anemias. In: Nathan DG & Oski FA (Editors), Hematology of Infancy and Childhood. 4th edn. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 413-450.
17. Dallman PR & Reeves JD (1984). Laboratory diagnosis of iron deficiency. In: Stekel A (Editor), Iron Nutrition in Infancy and Childhood. Raven Press, New York, 11-44.
18. NCHS (1976). Growth charts. US Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Public Health Resources Administration. Rockville, MD.
19. Mora JO (1989). A new method for estimating a standardized prevalence of child malnutrition from anthropometric indicator. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 67: 133-142.
20. Goulart EMA (1991). Proposta de uma nova classificação antropométrica para a desnutrição infantil: diagnóstico coletivo e individual, quantitative (graus) e qualitativo (aguda/cronica). Doctoral thesis, Faculdade de Medicina, UFMG, Belo Horizonte.
21. Tershakovec AM & Weller SC (1991). Iron Status of inner-city elementary school children: lack of correlation between anemia and iron deficiency. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 54: 1071-1076.
22. Dallman PR, Barr GD, Allen CM & Shinefield MD (11978). Hemoglobin concentration in white, black and oriental children: is there a need for separate criteria in screening for anemia? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 31: 377-380.
23. Meyers LD, Habicht JP & Johnson CC (1979). Components of the difference in hemoglobin concentrations in blood between black and white women in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology, 109: 539-549.
24. Reeves JD, Driggers DA, Lo EYT & Dallman PR (1981). Screening for anemia in infants: evidence in favor of using identical hemoglobin criteria for blacks and Caucasians. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 34: 2154-2157.
25. Perry GB, Byers T, Yip R & Margen S (1992). Iron nutrition does not account for the hemoglobin differences between blacks and whites. Journal of Nutrition, 122: 1417-1424.
26. Hermosa V, Mazo E, Bureo E, Carril J & Zubizarreta A (1987). Estudio prospective sobre la prevalencia de ferropenia en Cantabria entre niños de seis a catorce años. Anales Españoles de Pediatria, 27: 276-280.
27. OMS. Expert Scientific Working Group (1985). Summary of a report on assessment of the iron nutritional status of the United States population. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 42: 1318-1330.
28. Cook J, Alvarado J, Gutnisky A, Jamra M, Labardini J, Layrisse M, Linares J, Lorla A, Maspes V, Restrepo A, Reynafarje C, Sánchez-Medal L, Vélez H & Viteri F (1978). Nutritional deficiency and anemia in Latin America: a collaborative study. Blood, 38: 591-603.
29. OMS. Grupo de Expertos de la OMS (1972). Anemias nutricionales. Serie Informes Tecnicos, No. 503.
30. Burman D (1982). Iron deficiency in infancy and childhood. Clinical Haematology, 11: 338-350.
31. Lamparelli RDV, Van der Westhuyzen J, Steyn NP, Baynes RD, MacFarlane BJ, Green A & Bothwell TH (1988). Nutritional anaemia in 11-year-old school children in western Cape. South African Medical Journal, 73: 473-476.
32. Deinard AS, Schwanz S & Yip R (1983). Developmental changes in serum ferritin and erythrocyte protoporphyrin in normal (nonanamic) children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 38: 71-76.
33. Hallbarg L, Rossander-Hulthén L, Lindstedt G, Lundberg P, Mark A, Purens J, Svanberg B & Swolin B (1993). Prevalence of iron deficiency in Swedish adolescents. Pediatric Research, 34: 680-687.
34. Taylor PG, Martinez-Torres C, Mendez-Castellano H, Bosh V, Leets I, Tropper E & Layrisse M (1993). The relationship between iron deficiency and anemia in Venezuelan children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 58: 215-218.
35. Duggan MB, Steel G, Elwys G, Harbottle L & Noble C (1991). Iron status, energy intake and nutritional status of healthy young Asian children. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 66: 1386-1389.
36. Brown WD & Dyment PG (1972). Pagophagia and iron deficiency anemia in adolescent girls. Pediatrics, 49: 766-767.
37. Sow D, Kuakuvi N, Sall MG, Moreira C & Senghor G (1988). Anémie par carence martiale, géophagie et manifestations hépatospléniques chez l'enfant. Dakar Medical, 33: 6-11.