Iron deficiency in Massachusetts communities: socioeconomic and demographic risk factors among children

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 86; no. 4; pp. 544 - 550
• Main Authors: Sargent, J.D. (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.), Stukel, T.A, Dalton, M.A, Freeman, J.L, Brown, M.J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Am Public Health Assoc 01.04.1996; American Public Health Association
• Subjects: AGE; Anemia, Iron-Deficiency - ethnology; Anemia, Iron-Deficiency - etiology; Asian people; BEBES; Biological and medical sciences; CARENCE EN OLIGOELEMENT; Censuses; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; DEFICIENCIA DE OLIGOELEMENTOS; Demographic aspects; Demographics; EDAD; Educational Status; ENFANT EN AGE PRESCOLAIRE; ENFANT EN BAS AGE; ENSAYO; ERITROCITOS; ERYTHROCYTE; Estimates; ESTRUCTURA SOCIAL; Ethnic groups; FER; GROUPE ETHNIQUE; GRUPOS ETNICOS; HIERRO; Humans; Infant; Iron; Iron deficiency; Laboratories; Lead content; Lead poisoning; Mass Screening; MASSACHUSETTS; Massachusetts - epidemiology; Medical sciences; Metabolic diseases; NINOS DE EDAD PREESCOLAR; Nutrition; Odds Ratio; Other nutritional diseases (malnutrition, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies...); Population; Population Surveillance; PORFIRINAS; PORPHYRINE; Preschool children; Prevention programs; Public health; RIESGO; Risk Factors; RISQUE; Secondary schools; Sociodemographics; Socioeconomic aspects; Socioeconomic Factors; STRUCTURE SOCIALE; TESTAGE; United States; North America; Massachusetts; America; United States > US; Human; Demography; Socioeconomic status; Deficiency; Risk factor; Iron; Inorganic element; Child; Epidemiology; Ethnic group; Public health

This study examined the association between community rates of iron deficiency in children and sociodemographic characteristics of Massachusetts communities. Between April 1990 and March 1991, 238 273 Massachusetts children 6 through 59 months of age were screened; iron deficiency was defined as an...