Question

The prevalence and causes of nutritional iron deficiency anemia patrick macphail and thomas h. Bothwell

Answer 1

This review will be confined to a discussion of iron deficiency anemia as it affects adult populations. The problem of iron deficiency in infancy and childhood was the subject of a previous workshop in this series (1) and, together with the problem of iron balance in pregnancy and lactation, is covered in later chapters. The causes of iron deficiency have previously been extensively reviewed (2), and this review will therefore concentrate only on certain aspects, with special reference to areas of uncertainty and to the importance of nutritional factors in causation.