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Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town
Iron-deficiency anemia is probably the commonest deficiency disease in infants and children throughout the world today. This prevalence is indeed surprising as the condition can be readily detected. Moreover, iron medication is cheap and for many years has been known to be effective in the prephylax...
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| description | Iron-deficiency anemia is probably the commonest deficiency disease in infants and children throughout the world today. This prevalence is indeed surprising as the condition can be readily detected. Moreover, iron medication is cheap and for many years has been known to be effective in the prephylaxis and treatment of iron-deficiency anemia. In America, reportedly the most health-conscious of all countries, Guest and Brown (1957) have reported that the incidence, in at least one centre, is as high today as it was twenty years ago. If this is true in a country where practicing physicians are well primed about the importance of adequate nutrition, it is likely that in less-privileged communities there is probably greater failure to recognize or correct this deficiency state. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/31905 Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town Lanzkowsky, Philip Iron-deficiency Iron-deficiency anemia is probably the commonest deficiency disease in infants and children throughout the world today. This prevalence is indeed surprising as the condition can be readily detected. Moreover, iron medication is cheap and for many years has been known to be effective in the prephylaxis and treatment of iron-deficiency anemia. In America, reportedly the most health-conscious of all countries, Guest and Brown (1957) have reported that the incidence, in at least one centre, is as high today as it was twenty years ago. If this is true in a country where practicing physicians are well primed about the importance of adequate nutrition, it is likely that in less-privileged communities there is probably greater failure to recognize or correct this deficiency state. 2020-05-18T14:21:35Z 2020-05-18T14:21:35Z 1959 2020-04-16T10:24:59Z Doctoral Thesis Doctoral https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31905 eng application/pdf Department of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences |
| spellingShingle | Iron-deficiency Lanzkowsky, Philip Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town |
| title_full | Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town |
| title_fullStr | Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town |
| title_short | Iron-deficiency Anaemia in Infants and Pre-school children in Three Racial groups in Cape Town |
| title_sort | iron deficiency anaemia in infants and pre school children in three racial groups in cape town |
| topic | Iron-deficiency |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31905 |
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