Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and its Sociodemographic Patterning in Indian Children and Adolescents: Findings from the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016–18

Kulkarni, Bharati ; Peter, Rajini ; Ghosh, Santu ; Pullakhandam, Raghu ; Thomas, Tinku ; Reddy, G Bhanuprakash ; Rajkumar, Hemalatha ; Kapil, Umesh ; Deb, Sila ; Johnston, Robert ; Agrawal, Praween K ; De Wagt, Arjan ; Kurpad, Anura V ; Sachdev, Harshpal Singh (2021) Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and its Sociodemographic Patterning in Indian Children and Adolescents: Findings from the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016–18 The Journal of Nutrition, 151 (8). pp. 2422-2434. ISSN 0022-3166

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Abstract

Anemia control programs in India focus mainly on the measurement of hemoglobin in response to iron–folic acid supplementation. However, representative national estimates of iron deficiency (ID) are not availab

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Keywords:	adolescents, anemia, children, hemoglobin, inflammation, iron folate, India, iron deficiency, serum ferritin, sTfR
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