Maternal anemia at first antenatal visit: Prevalence and risk factors in a malaria-endemic area in Benin

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 418-424

  Ouédraogo, Smaïla ^a,d   Koura, Ghislain K ^a,d   Accrombessi, Manfred M K ^b,d   Bodeau Livinec, Florence ^c,d   Massougbodji, Achille ^b,d   Cot, Michel ^a,d  

^a Laboratory of Medical and Forensic Anthropology UFR des Sciences de la Santé   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'anatomie et cytologie pathologiques de la faculte des sciences de la santé de Cotonou   (Benin)

^c EHESP SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL ANEMIA; MATERNAL DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARASITOSIS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BENIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VERMES;

EID: 84865998764     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0706     Document Type: Article

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