Anemia and Micronutrient Status of Women of Childbearing Age and Children 6–59 Months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
| العنوان: | Anemia and Micronutrient Status of Women of Childbearing Age and Children 6–59 Months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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| المؤلفون: | Rosalind S. Gibson, Kristina D. Michaux, Meaghan Hawes, Kyly C. Whitfield, Larry D. Lynd, Pierrot L. Tugirimana, Jennifer Foley, Timothy J. Green, Judy McLean, Crystal D Karakochuk, Lisa A Houghton, Sarah Harvey-Leeson, Pierre Akilimali, Mourad Moursi, Esto Bahizire, Erick Boy |
| المصدر: | Nutrients; Volume 8; Issue 2; Pages: 98 Nutrients Nutrients, Vol 8, Iss 2, p 98 (2016) |
| بيانات النشر: | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0301 basic medicine, Gastroenterology, Hemoglobins, chemistry.chemical_compound, iron deficiency, 0302 clinical medicine, Medicine, Micronutrients, 030212 general & internal medicine, Nutrition and Dietetics, Anemia, Iron-Deficiency, biology, Anemia, Iron Deficiencies, Vitamins, deficiency, Micronutrient, Zinc, C-Reactive Protein, Child, Preschool, Democratic Republic of the Congo, lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply, Adult, Vitamin, medicine.medical_specialty, anemia, ferritin, hemoglobin, inflammation, micronutrient, Adolescent, Iron, Nutritional Status, lcsh:TX341-641, Article, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Receptors, Transferrin, Humans, Vitamin B12, Soluble transferrin receptor, Inflammation, 030109 nutrition & dietetics, business.industry, Infant, Avitaminosis, medicine.disease, Ferritin, chemistry, Iron-deficiency anemia, Ferritins, Immunology, biology.protein, Zinc deficiency, Deficiency Diseases, business, Food Science |
| الوصف: | Little is known about the micronutrient status of women and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is critical for the design of effective nutrition interventions. We recruited 744 mother-child pairs from South Kivu (SK) and Kongo Central (KC). We determined hemoglobin (Hb), serum zinc, vitamin B12, folate, ferritin, soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), retinol binding protein (RBP), C-reactive protein, and α-1 acid glycoprotein concentrations. Anemia prevalence was determined using Hb adjusted for altitude alone and Hb adjusted for both altitude and ethnicity. Anemia prevalence was lower after Hb adjustment for altitude and ethnicity, compared to only altitude, among women (6% vs. 17% in SK; 10% vs. 32% in KC), children 6–23 months (26% vs. 59% in SK; 25% vs. 42% in KC), and children 24–59 months (14% vs. 35% in SK; 23% vs. 44% in KC), respectively. Iron deficiency was seemingly higher with sTfR as compared to inflammation-adjusted ferritin among women (18% vs. 4% in SK; 21% vs. 5% in KC), children 6–23 months (51% vs. 14% in SK; 74% vs. 10% in KC), and children 24–59 months (23% vs. 4% in SK; 58% vs. 1% in KC). Regardless of indicator, iron deficiency anemia (IDA) never exceeded 3% in women. In children, IDA reached almost 20% when sTfR was used but was only 10% with ferritin. Folate, B12, and vitamin A (RBP) deficiencies were all very low ( |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.14288/1.0378980 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::4d2c55d30b565380c8f44fd1c324a6f9Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....4d2c55d30b565380c8f44fd1c324a6f9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| DOI: | 10.14288/1.0378980 |
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