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Iron deficiency linked to problems
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New Straits Times
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April 11, 2000
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New Straits Times
04-11-2000
Iron deficiency linked to problems
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Health
THE BAD NEWS IS...
... although not conclusive, a University of Michigan in Ann Arbor study links infant iron deficiency to adolescent learning and behavioural problems.
The study involved 48 children who had suffered chronic severe iron deficiency in infancy and 114 who had "good iron status".
All of the children who had sufficient iron exhibited normal growth patterns after infancy. Adolescents with infant iron deficiency appeared to perform more poorly in arithmetic and writing.
They also did not do as well on tests of short-term memory and took longer to determine if two ...
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