Dietary and Storage Factors in Iron-Deficiency Anemia of Infancy

Dawson, Jean P.; Desforges, Jane F.; DeLuca, Frances; Manchester, Alice

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1958.02060060171007

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“…Another pattern expected in the case of any form of infectious disease would be the presence of porotic hyperostosis in infants under 6 months of age, when they should be buffered by iron stores from birth (Buikstra and Cook, 1981), although premature birth, low birth weight, or severe maternal anemia are other possible explanations (Dawson and Desforges, 1958;Dallman, 1986;Palkovich, 1987). In the present sample, little evidence exists for anemia in children under 6 months of age.…”

Section: Infectious Diseasementioning

confidence: 55%

“…Human milk has a low iron concentration, and if breast-feeding is prolonged or weaning foods are iron poor, iron defi-ciency may result (Mensforth et al, 1978;Saarinen, 1978;Siimes et al, 1984;Weismantel, 1988;Calvo and Gnazzo, 1990). This is especially problematic because growing children have a much greater need for iron (Dawson and Desforges, 1958;Dallman et al, 1980;Dallman, 1986;Ryan, 1997).…”

Section: Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anemia and childhood mortality: Latitudinal patterning along the coast of pre-Columbian Peru

Blom

Buikstra

Keng

et al. 2005

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Hrdlicka ([1914] Smithson. Inst. Misc. Collect. 61:1-69) reported that pre-Columbian skeletal material from the coastal lowland Andean region exhibited a high frequency of porotic hyperostosis, a pathological condition of bone that generally is thought to indicate childhood anemia. While subsequent studies tended to reinforce this conclusion, factors implicated in the condition have yet to be fully explored in the region as a whole. This study explores regional and intravalley variation as one step in establishing biocultural variables that increase the apparent risk of childhood anemia. The study sample includes 1,465 individuals: 512 from Peruvian collections housed at the Field Museum of Natural History, and 953 from systematically excavated contexts from Moquegua, Peru. Environmental stressors, such as parasites and disease, rather than specific dietary practices were found to be more likely associated with childhood anemia in these coastal Andean samples. The study supports cribra orbitalia as an earlier expression of porotic hyperostosis and suggests that porotic hyperostosis, as recorded here, cannot be easily dismissed as a result of cranial shape modification. No clear temporal patterns were observed. Finally, the study establishes that comparing data for children and adults can reveal the relative association between childhood anemia and mortality. Childhood mortality associated with anemia was elevated where the presence of tuberculosis or tuberculosis-like conditions was more common and the presence of water-borne pathogens was negligible. In contrast, those buried at lower altitudes, closer to the coast, and consuming mainly marine resources were less likely to die in childhood with anemia than in the other contexts studied.

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Section: Infectious Diseasementioning

confidence: 55%

Section: Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anemia and childhood mortality: Latitudinal patterning along the coast of pre-Columbian Peru

Blom

Buikstra

Keng

et al. 2005

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Iron Deficiency Anemia in Office Practice

Baldini¹

1962

Medical Clinics of North America

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Iron Balance and Requirements in Infancy

Lowe¹,

Coursin²,

Filer³

et al. 1969

Pediatrics

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1. The iron endowment of the newborn is proportional to the initial hemoglobin mass. This in turn depends upon the birth weight and initial hemoglobin level. The presence of low birth weight or decreased hemoglobin level in the first few days of life may identify infants with special iron requirements during the first 18 months of life. 2. It is recommended that the diet of normal term infants provide 1.0 mg/kg/day of iron by 3 months of age to a maximum intake of 15 mg/day. This requirement can be easily met by inclusion in the diet of appropriate amounts of foods which have been enriched with iron, such as infant cereals or milk formulas. 3. Infants with low birth weight and others with reduced iron endowment require as much as 2.0 mg of iron per kilogram per day beginning by 2 months of age. This amount of iron will not ordinarily be provided by the diet, even if iron-supplemented cereals are given. Attainment of these larger amounts requires the use of medicinal iron or iron-supplemented milk formula. 4. Attention should be directed to providing a variety of iron-enriched dietary staples to be used routinely for feeding American infants during the period of life from 3 to 18 months of age and to more precisely determining the best form of iron supplementation. At the present time iron fortified baby cereals and milk formulas are the iron supplemented foods most generally available. These are not utilized by the segments of the American population which have the greatest need for them.

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Dietary and Storage Factors in Iron-Deficiency Anemia of Infancy

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Anemia and childhood mortality: Latitudinal patterning along the coast of pre-Columbian Peru

Anemia and childhood mortality: Latitudinal patterning along the coast of pre-Columbian Peru

Iron Deficiency Anemia in Office Practice

Iron Balance and Requirements in Infancy

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