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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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