Anemia in pregnancy in Malaysia: a cross-sectional survey

• Main Authors: Haniff, Jamaiyah, Das, Anita, Lim, Teck Onn, Chen, Won Sun, Mohd Nordin, Noraihan, Lekhraj Rampal, Sanjay Rampal, Bahrin, Safiah, Ganeslingam, Muralitharan, K. Kularatnam, Kumar Iswaran, Mohd Zaher, Zaki Morad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: HEC Press 2007
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37820/1/Anemia%20in%20pregnancy%20in%20Malaysia%20a%20cross-sectional%20survey.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37820/; http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/16/3/index.php

Anemia is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency during pregnancy. Except for a study conducted 10 years ago in Kelantan, Malaysia's available statistics are based on isolated small urban maternity hospital studies from the 1980s. There was therefore, a need for a large study at national lev...