PMID- 36036186
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20221115
LR  - 20230508
IS  - 0974-7559 (Electronic)
IS  - 0019-6061 (Print)
IS  - 0019-6061 (Linking)
VI  - 59
IP  - 11
DP  - 2022 Nov 15
TI  - Childhood and Adolescent Anemia Burden in India: The Way Forward.
PG  - 837-840
LID - S097475591600447 [pii]
AB  - The burden of anemia in Indian children, based on capillary blood sampling, is 
      believed to be profound and worsening (67.1%) according to the successive 
      National Family Health Surveys (NFHS). This might be an overestimate. The recent 
      Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey of Indian children, that used venous 
      blood sampling, found only less than half (30.7%) the NFHS prevalence, of which 
      only one third was due to iron deficiency (ID). Unfortunately, the apparently 
      worsening NFHS anemia burden estimate has been interpreted as an inadequacy of 
      the present iron supplementation policy. This has led to additional iron supply 
      through mandatory rice fortification. However, the lack of efficacy of iron 
      supplementation appears inevitable, if the true prevalence of iron deficiency 
      anemia is only about 10%. Thus, etiology is a critical consideration when 
      devising appropriate and effective prevention policies. Future policies must 
      focus on precision, thoughtfulness, restraint, and community engagement.
FAU - Kurpad, Anura Viswanath
AU  - Kurpad AV
AD  - Department of Physiology, St John's Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
FAU - Sachdev, Harshpal Singh
AU  - Sachdev HS
AD  - Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of 
      Science and Research, New Delhi. Correspondence to: Prof Harshpal Singh Sachdev, 
      Senior Consultant Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia Institute 
      of Science and Research, B-16 Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110 016. 
      hpssachdev@gmail.com.
LA  - eng
GR  - IA/CRC/19/1/610006/WTDBT_/DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance/India
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220826
PL  - India
TA  - Indian Pediatr
JT  - Indian pediatrics
JID - 2985062R
RN  - E1UOL152H7 (Iron)
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Anemia
MH  - *Anemia, Iron-Deficiency/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - *Iron Deficiencies
MH  - Iron
MH  - Nutritional Status
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - India/epidemiology
PMC - PMC9748895
COIS- Competing interests: HSS is a member of the WHO Guideline Development Group on 
      Anemia: Use and interpretation of haemoglobin concentrations for assessing anemia 
      status in individuals and populations. AVK and HSS are members of the National 
      Technical Board on Nutrition and of Task Forces and Expert Groups on anemia 
      constituted by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Health and Family 
      Welfare and the Indian Council of Medical Research.
EDAT- 2022/08/30 06:00
MHDA- 2022/11/16 06:00
PMCR- 2022/12/14
CRDT- 2022/08/29 05:40
PHST- 2022/08/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/11/16 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/08/29 05:40 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/14 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S097475591600447 [pii]
AID - 2639 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s13312-022-2639-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian Pediatr. 2022 Nov 15;59(11):837-840. doi: 10.1007/s13312-022-2639-6. Epub 
      2022 Aug 26.