Iron deficiency and child and maternal health
Open Access
- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 89 (3) , 946S-950S
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2008.26692d
Abstract
Background: Iron deficiency is most commonly found in women of reproductive age and infants worldwide, but the influence of maternal iron deficiency on infant development is underexplored.Keywords
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