Anemia and hemoglobinopathies : Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

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Anemia and hemoglobinopathies

Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

Anemia - Anemia in cancer - Anemia in kidney disease - Aplastic anemia - Blood transfusion

Blood transfusion: blood safety - Hemoglobin C disease - Hemoglobinopathies - Hemolytic anemia

Iron-deficiency anemia - Macrocytic anemia - Sickle cell anemia - Thalassemia

Afghanistan
- PLoS ONE
  - Reducing Anemia Prevalence in Afghanistan: Socioeconomic Correlates and the Particular Role of Agricultural Assets [2016]
Africa
- SAGE Open Medicine
  - Anemia in African malnourished pre-school children: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
Angola
- Porto Biomedical Journal
  - Anemia in preschool children from Angola: a review of the evidence [2020]
Australia
- BMJ Open
  - Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia associated with body mass index in Australian adults: a cross-sectional study [2022]
Bangladesh
- BMC Pediatrics
  - Determinants of anemia among 6–59 months aged children in Bangladesh: evidence from nationally representative data [2016]
- BMC Public Health
  - Inequality, chronic undernutrition, maternity, and diabetes mellitus as the determinant of anemia among ever-married women in Bangladesh [2021]
- BMC Women's Health
  - Differentials in the prevalence of anemia among non-pregnant, ever-married women in Bangladesh: multilevel logistic regression analysis of data from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey [2015]
Brazil
- BMC Women's Health
  - Anemia among indigenous women in Brazil: findings from the First National Survey of Indigenous People’s Health and Nutrition [2016]
- Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  - Prevalence of anemia in Brazilian adults and elderly [2019]
Cambodia
- Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  - Anemia in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study of anemia, socioeconomic status and other associated risk factors in rural women [2015]
  - Anemia in Cambodia: prevalence, etiology and research needs [2012]
Cameroon
- BioMed Research International
  - Determining Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associated Factors in Cameroon: A Multilevel Analysis [2021]
Canada
- Canadian Family Physician
  - Blood donation and anemia [2016]
Cape Verde
- Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  - Prevalence of Anaemia and Associated Factors among Children below Five Years of Age in Cape Verde, West Africa [2014]
China
- BMC Public Health
  - Increased prevalence and incidence of anemia among adults in transforming rural China: two cross-sectional surveys [2015]
- BMJ Open
  - Prevalence and health correlates of anaemia among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study [2020]
- EClinicalMedicine
  - Prevalence and intervention of preoperative anemia in Chinese adults: A retrospective cross-sectional study based on national preoperative anemia database [2021]
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Prevalence and Temporal Trend (2016–2018) of Anaemia among 6–23-Month-Old Infants and Young Children in China [2021]
  - Prevalence of Anemia and its Associated Factors among Chinese 9-, 12-, and 14-Year-Old Children: Results from 2014 Chinese National Survey on Students Constitution and Health [2020]
  - Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Association with Anaemia Prevalence and Haemoglobin Levels in Chinese Older Adults [2020]
  - Prevalence and Risk Factors for Anemia in Non-pregnant Childbearing Women from the Chinese Fifth National Health and Nutrition Survey [2019]
- Nutrients
  - Regional Differences in the Prevalence of Anaemia and Associated Risk Factors among Infants Aged 0–23 Months in China: China Nutrition and Health Surveillance [2021]
East Africa
- Frontiers in Nutrition
  - Magnitudes of Anemia and Its Determinant Factors Among Lactating Mothers in East African Countries: Using the Generalized Mixed-Effect Model [2021]
- PLoS ONE
  - Anemia and its associated factors among women of reproductive age in eastern Africa: A multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear model [2020]
Eastern Mediterranean
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Are Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region on Track towards Meeting the World Health Assembly Target for Anemia? A Review of Evidence [2021]
- WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  - Anaemia
Ecuador
- PLoS ONE
  - Anemia in women of reproductive age in Ecuador: Data from a national survey [2020]
Ethiopia
- African Health Sciences
  - A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and predictors of anemia among children in Ethiopia [2020]
- BMC Hematology
  - Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors in human immuno deficiency virus infected adult individuals in Ethiopia. A systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
- BMC Public Health
  - Decision-making autonomy of women and other factors of anemia among married women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of a countrywide survey [2021]
- BMC Research Notes
  - The contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to socioeconomic inequality in childhood anemia in Ethiopia: a regression-based decomposition analysis [2019]
- BMJ Open
  - Spatio-temporal distribution and associated factors of anaemia among children aged 6–59 months in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis based on the EDHS 2005–2016 [2021]
  - Anaemia prevalence and associated factors among lactating mothers in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2005 and 2011 demographic and health surveys [2015]
- Journal of Nutritional Science
  - Disparities in the prevalence and risk factors of anaemia among children aged 6–24 months and 25–59 months in Ethiopia [2020]
- Maternal & Child Nutrition
  - Anaemia and its determinants among young children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia (2005–2016) [2021]
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among adolescent girls in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  - Geographically weighted regression analysis of anemia and its associated factors among reproductive age women in Ethiopia using 2016 demographic and health survey [2022]
  - Spatial variations and determinants of anemia among under-five children in Ethiopia, EDHS 2005–2016 [2021]
  - Spatiotemporal patterns of anemia among lactating mothers in Ethiopia using data from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys (2005, 2011 and 2016) [2020]
  - Prevalence and determinants of anemia among young (15–24 years) women in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data [2020]
  - Individual and community level factors associated with anemia among children 6—59 months of age in Ethiopia: A further analysis of 2016 Ethiopia demographic and health survey [2020]
- Scientific Reports
  - Determinants of anemia severity levels among children aged 6-59 months in Ethiopia: Multilevel Bayesian statistical approach [2023]
- Systematic Reviews
  - Prevalence of anemia among school-age children in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
France
- Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine
  - Management and prevention of anemia (acute bleeding excluded) in adult critical care patients [2020]
Germany
- Advances in Therapy
  - Estimating the Epidemiological and Economic Impact of Implementing Preoperative Anaemia Measures in the German Healthcare System: The Health Economic Footprint of Patient Blood Management [2020]
Ghana
- BMC Public Health
  - Prevalence of anemia among under-5 children in the Ghanaian population: estimates from the Ghana demographic and health survey [2014]
- Maternal & Child Nutrition
  - Risk factors for anaemia among Ghanaian women and children vary by population group and climate zone [2021]
- PLoS ONE
  - Association between health insurance membership and anaemia among children under-five years. Evidence from Ghana [2020]
- U.S. Agency for International Development
  - Ghana: Landscape Analysis of Anemia and Anemia Programming [2016]
Guinea
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Anemia among Children under 5 Years in Guinea [2021]
India
- BMC Public Health
  - Socio-economic inequality in anaemia among men in India: a study based on cross-sectional data [2021]
  - Anaemia among mother-father-child pairs in India: examining co-existence of triple burden of anaemia in a family [2021]
- Indian Pediatrics
  - Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Nutritional Anemia in Children: Recommendations of the Joint Committee of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Chapter and Pediatric and Adolescent Nutrition Society of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics [2022]
- Jornal de Pediatria
  - Socio-economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia [2015]
- Lancet Global Health
  - Haemoglobin thresholds to define anaemia in a national sample of healthy children and adolescents aged 1–19 years in India: a population-based study [2021]
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence of anemia among reproductive women in different social group in India: Cross-sectional study using nationally representative data [2023]
Indonesia
- Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  - Intersectoral and eco-nutritional approaches to resolve persistent anemia in Indonesia [2020]
  - Anaemia prevalence over time in Indonesia: estimates from the 1997, 2000, and 2008 Indonesia Family Life Surveys [2015]
- Epidemiology and Health
  - Maternal pre-pregnancy anemia and childhood anemia in Indonesia: a risk assessment using a population-based prospective longitudinal study [2022]
International
- Blood
  - A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010 [2014]
- BMJ Global Health
  - Preanalytic and analytic factors affecting the measurement of haemoglobin concentration: impact on global estimates of anaemia prevalence [2021]
  - The burden of anaemia among displaced women and children in refugee settings worldwide, 2013–2016 [2019]
- Demographic and Health Surveys
  - Anemia
- Lancet Global Health
  - National, regional, and global estimates of anaemia by severity in women and children for 2000-19: a pooled analysis of population-representative data [2022]
  - Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995–2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data [2013]
- Perioperative Medicine
  - “Simplified International Recommendations for the Implementation of Patient Blood Management” (SIR4PBM) [2017]
Iran
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence and determinants of anemia among Iranian population aged >=35 years: A PERSIAN cohort–based cross-sectional study [2022]
Japan
- Scientific Reports
  - Prevalence of and factors related to anemia among Japanese adult women: Secondary data analysis using health check-up database [2019]
Jordan
- Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  - The prevalence and determinants of anaemia in Jordan [2019]
  - Prevalence and risk factors of anaemia among ever-married women in Jordan [2019]
Kuwait
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Prevalence and Determinants of Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Kuwait [2015]
Laos
- Anemia
  - Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associate Factors among Women of Reproductive Age in Lao PDR: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey [2021]
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A multilevel analysis [2021]
Latin America
- Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
  - Double Burden of Excess Weight and Anemia in Latin American Children up to 2019 [2020]
Lesotho
- African Health Sciences
  - Household and individual risk factors of anaemia among under-5 children in Lesotho [2020]
Low and middle income countries
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  - Anaemia in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries: progress towards the 2025 global nutrition target [2022]
- EClinicalMedicine
  - Prevalence and changes of anemia among young children and women in 47 low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018 [2021]
- Nature Medicine
  - Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018 [2021]
- Nutrients
  - Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age: An Overview of Global Burden, Trends, Determinants, and Drivers of Progress in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2021]
Malaysia
- PLoS ONE
  - Haematological Reference Intervals in a Multiethnic Population [2014]
Myanmar
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  - Prevalence of Anemia and Its Risk Factors Among Lactating Mothers in Myanmar [2014]
Nepal
- BMJ Open
  - Factors affecting anaemia among women of reproductive age in Nepal: a multilevel and spatial analysis [2021]
- Maternal & Child Nutrition
  - Trends and determinants of anaemia in women of Nepal: a multilevel analysis [2020]
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence and risk factors of childhood anemia in Nepal: A multilevel analysis [2020]
Nigeria
- Anemia
  - Statistical Modeling of Determinants of Anemia Prevalence among Children Aged 6–59 Months in Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study [2020]
- Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  - Ecological analysis of demographic-, nutritional- and housing-related factors associated with anaemia among women of reproductive age group in Nigeria [2022]
Republic of Korea
- Annals of Laboratory Medicine
  - Complete Blood Count Reference Intervals and Patterns of Changes Across Pediatric, Adult, and Geriatric Ages in Korea [2018]
- BMC Geriatrics
  - High anemia prevalence in Korean older adults, an advent healthcare problem: 2007–2016 KNHANES [2020]
- Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
  - Changes in the prevalence of anemia in Korean adolescents, 1998–2018 [2021]
South Africa
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Prevalence of Anaemia, Iron Deficiency, and Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Women of Reproductive Age and Children under 5 Years of Age in South Africa (1997–2021): A Systematic Review [2021]
South and Southeast Asia
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence and factors associated with anemia among women of reproductive age in seven South and Southeast Asian countries: Evidence from nationally representative surveys [2020]
South Asia
- PLoS ONE
  - Prevalence of and factors associated with anaemia in women of reproductive age in Bangladesh, Maldives and Nepal: Evidence from nationally-representative survey data [2021]
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Archives of Public Health
  - Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among married women in 19 sub-Saharan African countries [2021]
- BioMed Research International
  - Variations and Determinants of Anemia among Reproductive Age Women in Five Sub-Saharan Africa Countries [2021]
- BMJ Open
  - Household cooking fuel type and childhood anaemia in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of cross-sectional surveys of 123, 186 children from 29 countries [2021]
- British Journal of Haematology
  - Transfusion management of severe anaemia in African children: a consensus algorithm [2021]
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Key Determinants of Anemia among Youngsters under Five Years in Senegal, Malawi, and Angola [2020]
  - A Scoping Review of the Risk Factors Associated with Anaemia among Children Under Five Years in Sub-Saharan African Countries [2020]
- Maternal & Child Nutrition
  - Anaemia among under-five children: Is maternal marriage at 18th birthday and above protective? Evidence from 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
- PLoS ONE
  - Multilevel analysis of determinants of anemia among young women (15-24) in sub-Sahara Africa [2022]
  - Prevalence and determinants of severity levels of anemia among children aged 6–59 months in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel ordinal logistic regression analysis [2021]
- Scientific Reports
  - The epidemiological landscape of anemia in women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
Sudan
- BMC Pediatrics
  - Anaemia prevalence and determinants in under 5 years children: findings of a cross-sectional population-based study in Sudan [2020]
- BMC Public Health
  - Prevalence and determinants of anaemia in women of reproductive age in Sudan: analysis of a cross-sectional household survey [2020]
Tanzania
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  - Targeted and Population-Wide Interventions Are Needed to Address the Persistent Burden of Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age in Tanzania [2022]
Uganda
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  - Prevalence and Factors Associated with Anemia Among Children Under 5 Years of Age—Uganda, 2009 [2015]
United Kingdom
- British Society for Haematology
  - British Committee for Standards in Haematology Guidelines on the Identification and Management of Pre-Operative Anaemia [2015]
  - Guidelines on the management of anaemia and red cell transfusion in adult critically ill patients [2013]
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  - Evidence review for preoperative management of anaemia [2020]
- NHS England
  - Treatment of iron overload for transfused and non-transfused patients with chronic inherited anaemias (all ages) [2022]
- Public Health England
  - Anaemia: migrant health guide
United States
- American College of Physicians
  - Treatment of Anemia in Patients With Heart Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians [2013]
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  - Anemia
- JAMA Network Open
  - Prevalence of Appropriate Testing for Incident Anemia in the US Department of Veterans Affairs [2021]
- Journal of Community Health
  - Adolescent Anemia Screening During Ambulatory Pediatric Visits in the United States [2015]
- PLoS ONE
  - The Prevalence of Anemia and Moderate-Severe Anemia in the US Population (NHANES 2003-2012) [2016]
West and Central Africa
- Journal of Global Health
  - Levels and trends of adolescent girl’s undernutrition and anemia in West and Central Africa from 1998 to 2017 [2021]
WHO
- World Health Organization
  - Accelerating anaemia reduction: a comprehensive framework for action: web annex: WHO recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis and management of anaemia [2023]
  - Accelerating anaemia reduction: a comprehensive framework for action [2023]
  - WHO methods and data sources for mean haemoglobin and anaemia estimates in women of reproductive age and pre-school age children 2000-2019 [2021]
  - Global anaemia reduction efforts among women of reproductive age: impact, achievement of targets and the way forward for optimizing efforts [2020]
  - Nutritional anaemias: tools for effective prevention and control [2017]
  - The global prevalence of anaemia in 2011 [2015]
  - Global nutrition targets 2025: anaemia policy brief [2014]
  - Haemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anaemia and assessment of severity [2011]
  - Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005 : WHO global database on anaemia [2008]
  - Prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age (aged 15-49) (%)
  - Prevalence of anaemia in non-pregnant women (aged 15-49) (%)
  - Prevalence of anaemia in children aged 6–59 months (%)
  - Prevalence of anaemia in children <5 years
  - Number of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
  - Number of non-pregnant women (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
  - Number of children aged 6–59 months with anaemia (thousands)
  - Anaemia: Fact sheet
  - Anaemia in women and children
  - Anaemia
{Related topics}
- Guidelines
  - Thalassemia
  - Sickle cell anemia
  - Neonatal hematologic disorders
  - Macrocytic anemia
  - Iron-deficiency anemia
  - Hemolytic anemia
  - Hemoglobinopathies
  - Hemoglobin C disease
  - Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
  - Blood transfusion
  - Aplastic anemia
  - Anemia in kidney disease
  - Anemia in cancer

Anemia in cancer

Anemia in kidney disease

Aplastic anemia

Blood transfusion

Blood transfusion: blood safety

Hemoglobin C disease

Hemoglobinopathies

Hemolytic anemia

Iron-deficiency anemia

Macrocytic anemia

Sickle cell anemia