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Estimating the burden of iron deficiency among African children
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Iron deficiency (ID) is a major public health burden in African children and accurate prevalence estimates are important for effective nutritional interventions. However, ID may be incorrectly estimated in Africa because most measures of iron status are altered by inflammation and infections such as malaria. Through the current study we have assessed different approaches to the prediction of iron status and estimated the burden of ID in African children....
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12916-020-1502-7
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 18
- Article number:
- 31
- Publication date:
- 2020-02-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-01-22
- DOI:
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1741-7015
- ISSN:
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1741-7015
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- English
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1083687
- Local pid:
- pubs:1083687
- Deposit date:
- 2020-01-29
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- Muriuki et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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