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. 2020 Jun 18;1:100021. doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100021

Table 3.

Narrative review for anaemia and birth and health outcomes.

Study Study design, Country Population Result
Ferdous et al., 2012 [54] Prospective cohort,
Bangladesh
4817 women who delivered during 2007-2008 in the icddr,b field site in Matlab. About 26.49% perinatal deaths occur in mild anemic group.
Monirujjaman et al., 2014 [66] Cross-sectional,
Bangladesh
343 women aged 18-38 years were enrolled in this study from the district of Khulna division. Incidence of LBW was comparatively higher (35.5%) in anemic women (hb ​< ​9 ​g/dl) than normal women.
Begum et al., 2002 [51] Cross-sectional,
Bangladesh
357 women were included from one hospital. Anemic women had lower prevalence of diabetes (23.4%) than non-anemic women (54.2%). Anaemia was found protective for diabetes.
Mavalankar et al., 1992 [67] Case-control, India 1317 LBW cases mothers and 1465 controls mothers were selected during 1987 to 1988. The risk of delivering LBW in serve anemic women was 5.6 (95% CI, 2.1-15.3) and the moderate anemic woman was 1.8 (95%CI, 1.4-2.4).
Rizvi et al., 2007 [72] Case-control,
Pakistan
262 cases (LBW neonates) and 262 controls (normal weight) enrolled during July 2003 to September 2003. Maternal haemoglobin level was independently associated with LBW. Odds of delivering an LBW baby decreased with increased in maternal haemoglobin (OR:0.70; 95% CI:0.63-0.79)
Singla et al., 1997 [75] Cross-sectional
India
66 pregnant women were selected randomly from a hospital. Inverse association was found between birth weight maternal anaemia:
Daljeet et al., 2016 [82] Case-control
India
60 pregnant women included in this study; 30 of which were anemic Maternal anaemia was found significantly correlated with the LBW
Iltaf et al., 2017 [58] Prospective cohort
India
1606 women included in this study of which 161 had given a child classified as LBW Higher percentage of LBW was found among mothers had low haemoglobin level
Javed et al., 2018 [60] Cross-sectional
Pakistan
397 women included in this study of which 53 had given a child classified as LBW Maternal anaemia was found significantly associated with the occurrence of LBW.
Parks et al., 2019 [69] Retrospective cohort
India and Pakistan
A total of 92,247 deliveries data was analysed Maternal anaemia was found associated with LBW, stillbirth, preterm birth, neonatal mortality.
Singal eta l., 2018 [76] Case-control study
India
A total of 400 women given birth were included; 200 of them were anemic Higher occurrence of preterm birth was found among anemic mother.
Varsha et al., 2017 [79] Case-control study
India
200 mother-baby were included in this study The occurrence of LBW was found higher among the mothers were anaemic during delivery.
Nair et al., 2018 [70] Case-control study
India
200 pregnant mothers included and followed up delivery occurred Mothers with anaemia at any time during pregnancy was found to have 4.3 times higher risk of giving birth to low birth weight babies compared to non-anemic mothers

LBW, low birth weight; OR, odds ratio; CI, Confidence interval; hb, haemoglobin.