Prevalence and risk factors for anemia severity and type in Malawian men and women: Urban and rural differences

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Adamu, Aishatu L ^a   Crampin, Amelia ^b,c   Kayuni, Ndoliwe ^c   Amberbir, Alemayehu ^b,c   Koole, Olivier ^b,c   Phiri, Amos ^c   Nyirenda, Moffat ^b,c   Fine, Paul ^b  

^a BAYERO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c KARONGA PREVENTION STUDY   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Adult; Anemia severity; Anemia epidemiology; Men; Risk factors; Rural; Urban; Women

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; LIFESTYLE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALAWI; MALAWIAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; COMPLICATION; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

KARONGA; LILONGWE; MALAWI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85016492186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-017-0128-2     Document Type: Article

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