The charts of 156 children with nutritional iron-deficiency anemia were reviewed to re-examine the popular impression that such children are usually fat. Instead, a marked preponderance of underweight children was found. Treatment with iron resulted in accelerated weight gain in these children, producing a normal distribution curve. Growth curves prior to the diagnosis of iron-deficiency anemia showed a common pattern of early rapid weight gain with subsequent slowing as the anemia developed.
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