title: Haemoglobin adjustments to define anaemia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide researchers with an unambiguous definition of anaemia using haemoglobin.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of recommendations by expert groups and review of the literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This report provides an unambiguous approach to haemoglobin adjustments to define anaemia using international criteria. When determining anaemia using haemoglobin, it is important to account for pregnancy, altitude, cigarette smoking, and possibly ethnicity after removing unlikely values. These haemoglobin adjustments are presented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Recommendations for defining extreme haemoglobin values and for reporting anaemia and haemoglobin results are provided, and software programs to determine anaemia are described.
authors: Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta GA 30322, USA. cdckms@sph.emory.edu
authors: Kevin M
authors: KM
authors: Sullivan
authors: Zuguo
authors: Z
authors: Mei
authors: Laurence
authors: L
authors: Grummer-Strawn
authors: Ibrahim
authors: I
authors: Parvanta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000531:Altitude; D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005260:Female; D006452:Hemoglobinometry / Q000379:methods; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011247:Pregnancy; D011250:Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins