Title Iron deficiency anemia : recommended guidelines for the prevention, detection, and management among U.S. children and women of childbearing age / Committee on the Prevention, Detection, and Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia among U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine ; Robert Earl and Catherine E. Woteki, editors

Published Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (x, 126 pages) : illustrations Contents Committee's charge and approach -- Major issues -- Defining anemia -- Prevalence of anemia as a public health problem -- Implications of research on excess iron intake -- Developing screening and intervention guidelines -- Intervention strategies: efficacy and safety -- Supplementation for infants and children -- Supplementation for women -- Safety -- Recommended guidelines for prevention, detection and management of iron deficiency anemia -- Infants and children -- Nonpregnant women of childbearing age -- Pregnant women -- Comments and caution about cutoff values for laboratory tests -- Comments and caution about routine use of ferritin values -- Recommended guidelines for preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia in infants and children -- Recommended guidelines for preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia in nonpregnant women of childbearing age -- Recommended guidelines for preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women -- Recommendations for research -- Efficacy of routine iron supplementation during pregnancy -- Research base for public policy (cont) Iron deficiency anemia: a synthesis of current scientific knowledge and U.S. recommendations for prevention and treatment / Peter R. Dallman -- Iron-dependent pathologies / John L. Beard -- Dietary iron: trends in the iron content of foods, use of supplemental iron and the framework for regulation of iron in the diet -- Committee and staff biographies Notes Committee chair: Doris H. Calloway Study was supported by funds from the Division of Nutrition, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Iron deficiency anemia -- United States Iron deficiency anemia in children -- United States Women -- Diseases. Children. Women -- Health and hygiene. Human beings. Child Anemia, Hypochromic Women's Health Female Humans children (people by age group) Homo sapiens (species) MEDICAL -- Hematology. Women -- Health and hygiene Children Iron deficiency anemia Iron deficiency anemia in children Women -- Diseases SUBJECT United States Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Earl, Robert O. Woteki, Catherine E. Calloway, Doris Howes Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Prevention, Detection, and Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia Among U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board. LC no. 93086771 ISBN 0585158797 9780585158792

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