Genetic hemoglobin disorders rather than iron deficiency are a major predictor of hemoglobin concentration in women of reproductive age in rural prey veng, Cambodia

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 134-142

  Karakochuk, Crystal D ^a,b   Whitfield, Kyly C ^a,b   Barr, Susan I ^a   Lamers, Yvonne ^a,b   Devlin, Angela M ^a,b   Vercauteren, Suzanne M ^a,b,c   Kroeun, Hou ^d   Talukder, Aminuzzaman ^d   McLean, Judy ^a   Green, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Children and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia   (Canada)

^d HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Cambodia; Ferritin; Hemoglobin; Iron deficiency; Micronutrient; Serum transferrin receptor; Thalassemia; Women

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN E; OROSOMUCOID; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; IRON; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADULT; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMBODIA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RURAL AREA; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAMBODIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN E; HEMOGLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; IRON; LINEAR MODELS; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84919724861     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.198945     Document Type: Article

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