Anaemia in low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9809, 2011, Pages 2123-2135

  Balarajan, Yarlini ^a   Ramakrishnan, Usha ^b   Özaltin, Emre ^a   Shankar, Anuraj H ^a   Subramanian, S V ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANEMIA; BED NET; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALARIA; MEDICAL HISTORY; NECATORIASIS; NUTRITION; PALLOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 83955164266     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62304-5     Document Type: Review

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