Reducing iron deficiency anaemia due to heavy menstrual blood loss in Nigerian rural adolescents

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 249-257

  Barr, Fiona ^a   Brabin, Loretta ^a   Agbaje, Shola ^a   Buseri, Fiekumo ^b   Ikimalo, John ^b   Briggs, Nimi ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Iron status; Menorrhagia; Nigeria; Oral contraceptives

Indexed keywords

GOES;

IRON; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; TRANSFERRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MENARCHE; MENORRHAGIA; METABOLISM; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; IRON; MENARCHE; MENORRHAGIA; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0032227294     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/phn19980041     Document Type: Article

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