Haemoglobin Levels in Normal Infants Aged 3 to 24 Months, and the Effect of Iron

Burman, David

doi:10.1097/00132586-197304000-00048

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“…The lowest values in each group are, however, very close to the 5% level of Lundstrom et al [30]. The mean levels in our study correspond more closely with those of full-term infants re ported by Burman [31].…”

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Iron Status of the Preterm Infant during the First Year of Life

Halliday¹,

Lappin²,

McClure³

1984

Neonatology

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The iron status of 49 preterm infants (mean gestational age 33,1 weeks) was assessed serially during the 1st year of life. Haemoglobin concentration, serum ferritin, serum transferrin, serum iron, and transferrin saturation were measured on nine occasions in each infant. In 16 infants of gestational age 28-32 weeks the haemoglobin concentration was significantly lower at 3, 6, and 9 weeks when compared to 33 infants of gestational age 33-36 weeks. For all other measures of iron status there were no significant differences between these gestational age groups. For the entire group of 49 infants the mean haemoglobin concentration reached a nadir of 11.2 g/dl at 9 weeks. Mean serum iron and transferrin saturation reached peaks of 24 μmol/l and 65%, respectively, at 3 weeks. The mean serum ferritin remained over 100 μg/l until after 18 weeks. 13 infants (26%) had iron deficiency defined as either serum ferritin < 10 μg/l (n = 10) or transferrin saturation < 10% (n = 5) or both (n = 3).

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Iron Status of the Preterm Infant during the First Year of Life

Halliday¹,

Lappin²,

McClure³

1984

Neonatology

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“…At birth, the total hemoglobin (Hb) level, red blood cell (RBC) count and packed cell volume (PCV) are shown to be higher than at any other period of life. 6,7 The levels of these parameters then decrease during the next few months after birth, some more steeply than others, with the cells becoming hypochromic with the development of "physiologic" iron-deficiency anemia. 8 The hemoglobin content and the red cells then gradually rise to adult levels by the age of puberty.…”

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Normal Reference Values for Hematological Parameters, Red Cell Indices, Hb A2 and Hb F from Early Childhood Through Adolescence in Saudis

El‐Hazmi

Warsy

2001

Annals of Saudi Medicine

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“…In 1928 Mackay added to our understanding of the role of iron in human health, when he reported that supplementing the diet of infants with iron reduced the incidence of respiratory and diarrheal disease. Since then, these findings have been largely confirmed, in spite of methodological challenges to the original research (6,7). On the basis of these findings, along with the observation that iron deficiency was (and still remains) the most prevalent single nutrient deficiency, infant formulas were fortified with iron.…”

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History of Pediatric Nutrition and Fluid Therapy

2003

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Many of the individual nutrients in the human diet have been recognized for hundreds of years. However, identifying the daily requirements for these nutrients and their role in human metabolism and homeostasis are recent developments. Although, historically, the major focus in pediatric nutrition has been growth, attention to the relationship between dietary nutrients and other health outcomes, such as host defense, psychomotor development, and long-term health, has occurred only recently and has led to major advances in our understanding of the importance of nutrition in infancy and childhood. Several of the important advances in our understanding of the role of micronutrients and macronutrients in the health and development of infants and children are described below, along with historically relevant events in the history of infant feeding, childhood nutrition, and public health and fluid therapy. The history of infant feeding and formula development is given special emphasis because in many ways it is synonymous with the early history of the science of pediatric nutrition and also because of its importance in the practice of pediatrics in the past century. Each of the topics discussed in this review could serve as the basis for a full historical review by itself, and because of space limitations, many topics are not even discussed. Thus many, and perhaps most, of the individuals who have contributed in a very important way to the development of our understanding of the science of pediatric nutrition have not been mentioned. For this we apologize.Energy. We have only recently begun to unravel the complex central and peripheral signaling pathways and chemical messengers that govern energy intake and expenditure in healthy and compromised infants and children. The technique of indirect calorimetry pioneered by Voit in the last half of the 19th century and applied to infants by Forster in 1877 [as

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Haemoglobin Levels in Normal Infants Aged 3 to 24 Months, and the Effect of Iron

Cited by 10 publications

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Iron Status of the Preterm Infant during the First Year of Life

Iron Status of the Preterm Infant during the First Year of Life

Normal Reference Values for Hematological Parameters, Red Cell Indices, Hb A2 and Hb F from Early Childhood Through Adolescence in Saudis

History of Pediatric Nutrition and Fluid Therapy

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