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Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy

Africa

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • Thrombocytopenia among pregnant women in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Anaemia in pregnancy [2019]

• Australian Red Cross
  • Toolkit for Maternity Blood Management. A guide to improving identification and management of iron deficiency and anaemia [2020]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Retrospective audit compares screening and treatment of pregnancy-related anaemia in regional New South Wales with Australian guidelines [2024]

Bangladesh

• PLoS ONE
  • Maternal anemia and risk of adverse maternal health and birth outcomes in Bangladesh: A nationwide population-based survey [2022]

Cambodia

• PLoS ONE
  • Anemia among pregnant women in Cambodia: A descriptive analysis of temporal and geospatial trends and logistic regression-based examination of factors associated with anemia in pregnant women [2023]

China

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and influencing factors of anemia among pregnant women across first, second and third trimesters of pregnancy in monitoring areas, from 2016 to 2020: a population-based multi-center cohort study [2024]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Anemia of Pregnant Women — 6 Provinces in China, 2014-2018 [2020]

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • 2021 Chinese consensus on the diagnosis and management of primary immune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy [2022]

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • Maternal anaemia prevention and control in China: A policy review [2024]

• Nutrients
  • The Prevalence of Anemia among Pregnant Women in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2024]
  • Variation Patterns of Hemoglobin Levels by Gestational Age during Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort Study in China [2023]
  • Preconception Hemoglobin Concentration and Risk of Low Birth Weight and Small-for-Gestational-Age: A Large Prospective Cohort Study in China [2022]

Denmark

• Cancer Epidemiology
  • Maternal anemia and childhood cancer: a population-based case-control study in Denmark [2023]

East Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among pregnant women in East Africa; A multi-level analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]

Egypt

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Anemia in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, determinants, and health impacts in Egypt [2025]

Eswatini

• African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
  • Prevalence and associated risk factors for anaemia amongst pregnant women attending three antenatal clinics in Eswatini [2022]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The prevalence of thrombocytopenia among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
  • The magnitude and associated factors of immediate postpartum anemia among women who gave birth in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023 [2024]
  • Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among postpartum mothers in public health facilities in Ethiopia, 2024: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Determinants of anemia status among pregnant women in Ethiopia: using 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data; application of ordinal logistic regression models [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Hotspot analysis of anaemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia: hotspot analysis of national demographic and health survey data [2024]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Spatial distribution and trends of anemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia: EDHS 2005-2016 [2023]

• Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
  • Is Indoor Air Pollution From Different Fuel Types Associated With the Anemia Status of Pregnant Women in Ethiopia? [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Association between anemia in pregnancy with low birth weight and preterm birth in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Prevalence and predictors of anemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Trend and determinants of anemia change among pregnant and/or lactating women in Ethiopia: A multivariate decomposition analysis [2020]

Europe

• European Hematology Association
  • Recommendations for Pregnancy in Rare Inherited Anemias [2020]

• European Molecular Genetics Quality Network
  • EMQN Best Practice Guidelines for molecular and haematology methods for carrier identification and prenatal diagnosis of the haemoglobinopathies [2015]

Finland

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Gestational anemia and maternal antenatal and postpartum psychological distress in a prospective FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study [2022]

France

• Blood
  • Immune thrombocytopenia and pregnancy: an exposed/nonexposed cohort study [2023]

• Lancet Haematology
  • Maternal and obstetric outcomes in women with pregnancy-associated haematological malignancies: an observational nationwide cohort study [2024]

Germany

• Blood Transfusion
  • Anemia, red blood cell transfusion and administration of blood products in obstetrics: a nationwide analysis of more than 6 million cases from 2011-2020 [2024]

Ghana

• PLoS ONE
  • Establishing pregnancy-specific haematological reference intervals in Ghana; a three-center cross-sectional study [2023]

High-income countries

• Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
  • Evidence-based management of pregnant women with sickle cell disease in high-income countries [2022]

India

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Improving the approach to assess impact of anaemia control programs during pregnancy in India: a critical analysis [2022]
  • Decadal change in the association between the status of young mother's Body Mass Index and anaemia with child low birth weight in India [2022]

• Cureus
  • Tackling Anemia in Pregnant Women in India: Reviewing the Obstacles and Charting a Path Forward [2023]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Ethical issues in genetic counselling with special reference to haemoglobinopathies [2011]

International

• Blood
  • Management of thrombotic microangiopathy in pregnancy and postpartum: report from an international working group [2020]

• Blood Advances
  • Consensus statement for the perinatal management of patients with a thalassemia major [2021]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Maternal low and high hemoglobin concentrations and associations with adverse maternal and infant health outcomes: an updated global systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• BMC Public Health
  • A rapid landscape review of postpartum anaemia measurement: challenges and opportunities [2023]

• EClinicalMedicine
  • International values for haemoglobin distributions in healthy pregnant women [2020]

• Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
  • Pregnancy in the Sickle Cell Disease and Fetomaternal Outcomes in Different Sickle cell Genotypes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

• European Journal of Haematology
  • Hematologic Complications of Pregnancy [2025]

• International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Management of pregnancy and delivery in congenital fibrinogen disorders: communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Factor XIII and Fibrinogen [2024]
  • ISTH guidelines for treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura [2020]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Association of Maternal Anemia and Cesarean Delivery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]

• Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Hematologic Malignancies in Pregnancy: Management Guidelines From an International Consensus Meeting [2016]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Risk of maternal mortality in women with severe anaemia during pregnancy and post partum: a multilevel analysis [2018]

• Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis
  • Patient blood management in obstetrics: management of anaemia and haematinic deficiencies in pregnancy and in the post-partum period: NATA consensus statement [2018]

Jamaica

• PLoS ONE
  • Excess Risk of Maternal Death from Sickle Cell Disease in Jamaica: 1998–2007 [2011]

Kenya

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Mapping of anaemia prevalence among pregnant women in Kenya (2016–2019) [2020]

• PRECISE Network
  • Diagnostic accuracy of a non-invasive spot-check hemoglobin meter, Masimo Rad-67® pulse CO-Oximeter®, in detection of anemia in antenatal care settings in Kenya [2024]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Maternal anaemia and risk of neonatal and infant mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis of 45 national datasets [2025]

• Medical Journal of Malaysia
  • Normocytic Anemia in Pregnant Women: A Scoping Review [2024]

Low-income countries

• Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
  • Evidence-based obstetric management of women with sickle cell disease in low-income countries [2022]

Mozambique, Portugal

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Anemia in Pregnant Women and Children Aged 6 to 59 Months Living in Mozambique and Portugal: An Overview of Systematic Reviews [2022]

Nigeria

• African Health Sciences
  • What factors are associated with anaemia in pregnancy among Nigerian women? Evidence from a national survey [2023]

Rwanda

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Factors associated with anaemia among pregnant women in Rwanda: an analysis of the Rwanda demographic and health survey of 2020 [2024]

South Africa

• Systematic Reviews
  • The prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of anaemia in South African pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Blood transfusion in pregnancy [2023]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Archives of Public Health
  • Prevalence and determinants of Anemia among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and Meta-analysis [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Interbirth interval and maternal anaemia in 21 sub-Saharan African countries: A fractional-polynomial analysis [2022]

Sweden

• Leukemia
  • Pregnancy and childbirth outcomes in women with myeloproliferative neoplasms-a nationwide population-based study of 342 pregnancies in Sweden [2022]

Tanzania

• Nutrition Journal
  • High burden of anemia among pregnant women in Tanzania: a call to address its determinants [2021]

Turkey

• Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
  • Anemia levels in the preconception period and the first trimester of pregnancy: a national, multicentric and cross-sectional study [2025]

United Kingdom

• British Society for Haematology
  • Guideline for the management of conception and pregnancy in thalassaemia syndromes: A British Society for Haematology Guideline [2024]
  • Management of sickle cell disease in pregnancy. A British Society for Haematology Guideline [2021]
  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute myeloid leukaemia in pregnancy [2015]

• NHS Blood and Transplant
  • Obstetric anaemia

• NHS England
  • SCT screening: handbook for antenatal laboratories

• Right Decisions
  • Management of Anaemia in Pregnancy Guideline

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Management of Beta Thalassaemia in Pregnancy [2014]

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Sickle cell and thalassaemia
  • Anaemia

United Kingdom, United States

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Quality assessment of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the management of pregnant women with sickle cell disease using the AGREE II instrument: a systematic review [2020]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Hemoglobinopathies in Pregnancy [2022]

• American Society of Hematology
  • American Society of Hematology 2019 guidelines for immune thrombocytopenia [2019]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Obstetrician-Gynecologists’ knowledge of sickle cell disease screening and management [2014]

• Cureus
  • Hematologic Findings in Pregnancy: A Guide for the Internist [2021]

• Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
  • Thrombocytopenia in pregnancy [2022]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Sickle Cell Disease in the National Inpatient Sample, 2012-2018 [2023]
  • Comparisons of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Other Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Pregnant People With Sickle Cell Disease vs Anemia [2023]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #68: Sickle cell disease in pregnancy [2023]

• Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
  • The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Interdisciplinary Consensus Statement on Neuraxial Procedures in Obstetric Patients With Thrombocytopenia [2021]

• Therapeutic Advances in Hematology
  • Thrombopoietin receptor agonist for treatment of immune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy: a narrative review [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women (aged 15-49) (%)
  • Number of pregnant women (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
  • Mean hemoglobin level of pregnant women (aged 15-49 years)

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Obstetrics, perinatology
  • Neonatal hematologic disorders
  • Iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy
  • Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy
  • Bleeding in pregnancy, placenta diseases
  • Anemia and hemoglobinopathies