Rabia Farid.
Nutritional Deficiency Anemia in Children Aged 4 to 10 Years.
Mother & Child Jan ;13(3):94-9.

The present study was planned to investigate the relationship between dietary practices and microcytic anemia among low income children of postweaning age and to assess the usefulness of a brief dietary history as a screening tool for microcytic anemia.For microcytic anemia, the brief diet history had a sensitivity of 92%, specificity of 82%, and negative predictive value of 95% while taking low hemoglobin as the standard, diet history had somewhat lower sensitivity and negative predictive value of 61 % and 89% respectively

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