Statistical haemoglobin thresholds to define anaemia across the lifecycle

Abstract excerpt

Detection of anaemia is critical for clinical medicine and public health. Current WHO values that define anaemia are statistical thresholds (5 th centile) set over 50 years ago, and are presently <110g/L in children 6-59 months, <115g/L in children 5-11 years, <110g/L in pregnant women, <120g/L in children 12-14 years of age, <120g/L in non-pregnant women, and <130g/L in men. Haemoglobin is sensitive to iron and o...

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• Genetic Testing
• Hematology
• Hemoglobin A
• Hemoglobinopathies
• Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
• Practice Guidelines as Topic
• Pregnancy
• Prenatal Diagnosis

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Literature Corpus work

d74cdc9f-c128-5af5-9e6d-524f7f2fc791

DOI

10.1101/2023.05.22.23290129