Table 1.
The iron concentration of breast milk from women of term infants aged 1–6 months according to country, from the literature (from the year 2000 onwards) adapted to Daniels et al., 2018 [16].
| Country | mg/L | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Pacific (Japan) |
1–3 months 3–6 months |
1155 1
1155 1 |
1.8 ± 3.3 0.5 ± 1.4 |
Yamawaki et al. (2005) [17] |
| Americas (Brazil) |
2 months | 31 | 0.9 ± 0.5 | Mastroeni et al. (2006) [18] |
| South-East Asia (India) |
3.5 months | 100 3 | 0.3 | Shashiraj et al. (2006) [19] |
| Americas (USA) |
1–1.5 months 2.5–3 months |
30 17 |
0.5 ± 1.0 0.4 ± 0.3 |
Hannan et al. (2008) [20] |
| Eastern Mediterranean (Iran) | 3–4 months | 182 | 0.9 ± 0.5 | Mahdavi et al. (2009) [21] |
| Western Pacific (Mongolia) |
1–6 months | 66 | 0.5 ± 0.2 | Shi et al. (2011) [22] |
| Western Pacific (South Korea) |
3 months 4 months 5 months |
87 2
86 2 66 2 |
0.4 ± 0.3 0.4 ± 0.7 0.3 ± 0.2 |
Kim et al. (2017) [23] |
| South-East Asia (Indonesia) |
2–5.3 months | 113 | 0.2 (0.2, 0.3) | Daniels et al. (2018) [16] |
1 Sample included an unknown number of infants born <2.5 kg and/or mothers using supplements (unknown number and type). 2 50% of the total sample took supplements (unknown type). 3 Included anemic and non-anemic women.