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Iron Deficiency Anaemia: Its Prevalence Among Women of Reproductive Age in Shanghai and Tokyo and Links to Body Mass Index.
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- Depression and lifestyle: Focusing on nutrition, exercise, and their possible relevance to molecular mechanisms.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Pooled it
- A Multicenter Single-Arm Study of Switching to Ferric Citrate Hydrate for Iron Deficiency Anemia in Patients Intolerant to Oral Iron: RIO-SWITCH.Advances in therapy · 2025Trial
- Trends in dietary iron deficiency in children aged 0-14 years in China, Japan, the USA, and the UK, 1990-2021.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Association between Adiposity and Iron Status in Women of Reproductive Age: Data from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) 2008-2019.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- [Analysis on the iron status and associated factors during the first trimester of pregnancy].Beijing da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Peking University. Health sciences · 2023Article
- Changes in the proportion of anemia among young women after the Great East Japan Earthquake: the Fukushima health management survey.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Health-Related Lifestyles in Relation to Body Mass Index Among Young and Middle-Aged Women in Japan.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- COVID-19 lockdown measures induced severe iron-deficiency anaemia resulting in central retinal vein occlusion and amenorrhea.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this study, we examined the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) among young women between the ages of 20-44 living in Shanghai, China, and Tokyo, Japan with a particular emphasis on investigating its possible links with body mass index (BMI). Shanghai data were obtained from annual health check-up records conducted between May and September 2016 (n=2,006). Tokyo data were from health examinations of employees working in dispensing pharmacies between July and February 2017 (n=877). Anaemia prevalence was found to be 14.8% and 11.4% in Shanghai and Tokyo, respectively. The proportion of women with a BMI of <18.5 was 9.9% in Shanghai and 25.7% in Tokyo. Anaemia prevalence tends to be high in women with a low BMI. Women with a BMI of <18.5 had the highest prevalence of anaemia (18.2%) in Shanghai. Yet, the prevalence of anaemia was low (9.3%) among Tokyo women with a BMI of <18.5, significantly lower than those with a BMI between 18.5-25.0 (12.5%). IDA is a significant problem among women in both Shanghai and Tokyo, where the 'desire for thinness" is commonplace among young women. The Tokyo participants with a low BMI, however, appear to have managed to avoid developing IDA.
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