Revisiting WHO haemoglobin thresholds to define anaemia in clinical medicine and public health

The Lancet Haematology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2018, Pages e60-e62

  Pasricha, Sant Rayn ^a,b   Colman, Katherine ^c   Centeno Tablante, Elizabeth ^d   Garcia Casal, Maria Nieves ^d   Peña Rosas, Juan Pablo ^d  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; THALASSEMIA; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHILD; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFERENCE VALUES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85044480884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3026(18)30004-8     Document Type: Note

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