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IRON DEFICIENCY ANAEMIA IN AUSTRALIAN WOMEN
Author(s) -
McEwin Roderick,
Hinton Jane,
Sills Irene
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb47706.x
Subject(s) - iron deficiency , incidence (geometry) , medicine , population , iron supplementation , demography , anemia , pediatrics , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
Med. J. Aust. , 1974, 1: 293‐298. A survey of a selected population of Australian women between the ages of 16 and 61 years showed a significant incidence of anaemia. Forty‐six of 1,024 women tested (4.5%) were found to be anaemic (haemoglobin level less than 12 gm/100 ml). Forty‐five of these proved to be suffering from iron deficiency anaemia. If 11.5 gm/100 ml is taken as the lower limit of normal haemoglobin level, 2‐2% of our sample were anæmic. These findings are similar to two other Australian surveys.