ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2017
Perspective: What Makes It So Difficult to Mitigate Worldwide Anemia Prevalence?
Review in Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03498755 (The Invisible Fishers), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Invisible Fishers: Empowering and Safeguarding Women in Fisheries Value Chains in Ghana to Reduce Anemia
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Decreased Hemoglobin Concentration and Iron Metabolism Disorder in Periodontitis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Pooled it
- Determinants of Household-Level Double Burden of Malnutrition in South and Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Associations of dietary and blood inflammatory indices with anemia in U.S. adults: Evidence from NHANES 2007 to 2018.Medicine · 2025Article
- Sleep behaviors modify the association between hemoglobin concentration and respiratory infection: a prospective cohort analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Demographic variation and socioeconomic inequalities in all forms of malnutrition among children aged 6 months to 9 years: findings from the Vietnamese General Nutrition Survey 2020.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Iron-related Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Management of Iron Disorders.Current medicinal chemistry · 2024Review
- Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among under-five children living in Arba Minch Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites (HDSS), Southern Ethiopia.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Associations of dietary, sociodemographic, and anthropometric factors with anemia among the Zhuang ethnic adults: a cross-sectional study in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Global profile of anemia during pregnancy versus country income overview: 19 years estimative (2000-2019).Annals of hematology · 2023Article
- Association between anemia and lumbar disc degeneration in patients with low back pain: an observational retrospective study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2023Observational
- A Multimodal Deep Learning Approach to Predicting Systemic Diseases from Oral Conditions.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Therapeutic effects of Sheng Xue Fang in a cyclophosphamide-induced anaemia mouse model.Pharmaceutical biology · 2021Article
- Prevalence and changes of anemia among young children and women in 47 low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018.EClinicalMedicine · 2021Article
- The Risk Factors for Child Anemia Are Consistent across 3 National Surveys in Nepal.Current developments in nutrition · 2021Article
- Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Associated with Nutritional Anemia: A Nested Case-Control Study Using a National Health Screening Cohort.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Evaluating the nutritional content of an insect-fortified food for the child complementary diet in Ghana.BMC nutrition · 2020Article
- Women's empowerment and child nutrition: The role of intrinsic agency.SSM - population health · 2019Article
- Nutrition disparities and the global burden of malnutrition.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Anemia can be related to decreased production or increased loss of erythrocytes, or both, leading to many underlying and often overlapping causes. A largely cereal-based diet with plenty of phytates, polyphenols, and other ligands that inhibit intestinal iron absorption predominated in preindustrial Europe and predominates in present-day developing countries alike. In both situations, we find poor hygienic conditions, which frequently lead to anemia of inflammation. The large number of possible causes and their interaction shows why it is so difficult to mitigate anemia prevalence. Diagnostic biomarkers are required to differentiate the different types of anemia and to treat them appropriately. Some of them are well established in adults [e.g., concentrations of serum ferritin, soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), and serum iron or the ratio of sTfR to log ferritin]. Others, such as serum hepcidin, hold considerable promise, although they are not yet widely used. A particular issue is to establish reference values for biomarkers in infants and children at different ages. The fact that resource-rich postindustrial societies have a very low prevalence of iron-deficiency anemia offers hope that common types of anemia can be eliminated. In contrast, inborn forms of anemia, such as thalassemia, and anemias related to underlying diseases (e.g., bleeding tumors or peptic ulcers, gynecologic blood losses, or renal diseases) require an operational health system to be addressed appropriately.
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