[Prevalence of ferropenia and iron deficiency anemia in a rural school population, 4 to 16 years of age].
The ferropenic, is an important disturbance in the childhood due to its frequency, and the necessity of a permanent increase of iron at this age, other factors can be added, such as the iron demand and hemorrhagic loss in puberty. We studied 214 rural school children, between 4 and 16 years in Tenerife, among who two girls, 13 and 14 years old, and one boy 11 years old showed clear ferropenic (1.4%). Another four (1.8%) 3 girls with 14.14 and 9 years, and one boy with 7 years showed latent ferropenic. Overall the ferropenic incidence was 3.2%. There was not ferropenic anemia in any case. These results are similar to those found in another study in urban school children of the same ages, in the same island.
Martín Martín
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Hospital General y Clínico, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife.
Santolaria Fernández
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F
González Brito
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G
Brito Barroso
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ML
Marsa Vila
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L
Colino Paulis
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R
Hernández Nieto
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L
D000293:Adolescent; D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007501:Iron / Q000097:blood; D000090463:Iron Deficiencies; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D012423:Rural Health; D013030:Spain
D007501:Iron
Prevalencia de ferropenia y anemia ferropénica en una población escolar rural, entre cuatro y dieciséis años.