Iron status of pregnant Indian women from an area of active iron supplementation

Menon KC 1 , Ferguson EL 2 , Thomson CD 3 , Gray AR 4 , Zodpey S 5 , Saraf A 5 Show all authors , Das PK 6 , Pandav CS 7 , Skeaff SA 8

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Healthy Lifestyle Cluster, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Penang, Malaysia
  • 2 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
  • 3 Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 4 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 5 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
  • 6 Health and Family Welfare Training Institute, Nagpur, India
  • 7 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  • 8 Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Electronic address: sheila.skeaff@otago.ac.nz
Nutrition, 2014 Mar;30(3):291-6.
PMID: 24484679 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2013.08.015

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the iron status of pregnant tribal women from Ramtek, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India using a combination of indices.

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