Estimating the burden of disease attributable to iron deficiency anaemia in South Africa in 2000

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 741-746

  Nojilana, Beatrice ^a   Norman, Rosanna ^a   Dhansay, Muhammad A ^a   Labadarios, Demetre ^b   van Stuijvenberg, Martha E ^a   Bradshaw, Debbie ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COST OF ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 38449100695     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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