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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2006 Feb;60(2):228–235. doi: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602306

Table 2.

Anemia prevalence and severity and its relation to iron deficiency (N=490)

Hemoglobin values n Anemia prevalence (%) n Iron deficiency anemia prevalence (%)
90–105 g/L 213 43.5 147 30.0
70–89 g/L 60 12.2 55 11.2
< 70 g/L 10 2.0 9 1.8
1

Iron deficiency anemia: Erythrocyte protoporphyrin > 90 μmol/mol heme; Domellof, Dewey, et. al., 2002