Maternal anaemia at delivery and haemoglobin evolution in children during their first 18 months of life using latent class analysis.

BACKGROUND: Anaemia during pregnancy and at delivery is an important public health problem in low- and middle-income countries. Its association with the children's haemoglobin level over time remains unclear. Our goals were to identify distinct haemoglobin level trajectories using latent class...

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Main Authors: Kobto G Koura, Smaïla Ouédraogo, Gilles Cottrell, Agnès Le Port, Achille Massougbodji, André Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3503763?pdf=render