Sensitivity analyses and meta-regression for hemoglobin suggested a higher response with lower trial quality ( suboptimal allocation concealment and blinding ) , use of condiments , and sodium iron edetate and a lower response when adults were included .
Consumption of iron-fortified foods results in an improvement in hemoglobin , serum ferritin , and iron nutriture and a reduced risk of remaining anemic and iron deficient
BACKGROUND The utility of iron fortification of food to improve iron deficiency , anemia , and biological outcomes is not proven unequivocally .
Prevention of anaemia in inner-city toddlers by the use of a follow-on formula.
Results of research into preventing iron-deficiency anaemia in inner-city toddlers , published in full in Archives of Disease in Childhood ( 1996 ; 75 : 9 - 16 ) , are discussed by the authors . In a prospect i ve study , 100 infants already receiving pasteurised cow 's milk by six months old were r and omly divided into two groups , one to receive a follow-on formula and the other to continue on cow 's milk until aged 18 months . At 18 months one-third of the cow 's milk group were anaemic compared with 2 % of the formula group . The authors consider that if the same volume of st and ard infant formula had been given instead of a follow-on formula , substantially fewer of the children would have reached the correct reference nutrient intake for iron
Sensitivity analyses and meta-regression for hemoglobin suggested a higher response with lower trial quality ( suboptimal allocation concealment and blinding ) , use of condiments , and sodium iron edetate and a lower response when adults were included .
Consumption of iron-fortified foods results in an improvement in hemoglobin , serum ferritin , and iron nutriture and a reduced risk of remaining anemic and iron deficient
BACKGROUND The utility of iron fortification of food to improve iron deficiency , anemia , and biological outcomes is not proven unequivocally .