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      Deficiencia de hierro y zinc en niños Translated title: Iron and zinc deficiency in children

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          La anemia continúa siendo un gran problema de salud a nivel mundial, en Bolivia el 82% de los niños de 6 a 23 meses son anémicos. El retardo de crecimiento es un problema frecuente en países en desarrollo, el 32% de los niños bolivianos lo sufren, esta prevalencia es la más alta de Sudamérica. En ambas patologías, anemia y retardo de crecimiento, el factor etiológico más importante es la deficiencia de hierro y zinc, respectivamente. Tanto la deficiencia de hierro, como la deficiencia de zinc tienen un papel preponderante como problemas de salud pública. La deficiencia de hierro constituye la mayor causa de anemia a nivel mundial. Por otro lado la deficiencia de zinc implica retraso del crecimiento, incremento de la morbilidad en enfermedades infecciosas, como diarrea y neumonía, principalmente en los dos primeros años de vida.

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          Anemia remains a major health problem worldwide, 82% of Bolivian children among 6 to 23 months are anemic. Growth retardation is a common problem in developing countries, 32% of Bolivian children are stunted and this prevalence is the highest in South America. The most important etiological factor in both disorders, anemia and stunting, is iron and zinc deficiency, respectively. Both iron deficiency and zinc deficiency have a role as public health problems. Iron deficiency is the major cause of anemia worldwide. On the other hand zinc deficiency implies growth retardation, increased infectious disease morbidity such as diarrhea and pneumonia, especially in the first two years of life.

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          Diagnosis and management of iron-deficiency anaemia.

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          Anaemia is typically the first clue to iron deficiency, but an isolated haemoglobin measurement has both low specificity and low sensitivity. The latter can be improved by including measures of iron-deficient erythropoiesis such as the transferrin iron saturation, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, erythrocyte zinc protoporphyrin, percentage of hypochromic erythrocytes or reticulocyte haemoglobin concentration. However, the changes in these measurements with iron deficiency are indistinguishable from those seen in patients with the anaemia of chronic disease. The optimal diagnostic approach is to measure the serum ferritin as an index of iron stores and the serum transferrin receptor as a index of tissue iron deficiency. The treatment of iron deficiency should always be initiated with oral iron. When this fails because of large blood losses, iron malabsorption, or intolerance to oral iron, parenteral iron can be given using iron dextran, iron gluconate or iron sucrose.
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            Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

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              A community-based randomized controlled trial of iron and zinc supplementation in Indonesian infants: effects on growth and development.

              Deficiencies of iron and zinc are associated with delayed development, growth faltering, and increased infectious-disease morbidity during infancy and childhood. Combined iron and zinc supplementation may therefore be a logical preventive strategy. The objective of the study was to compare the effects of combined iron and zinc supplementation in infancy with the effects of iron and zinc as single micronutrients on growth, psychomotor development, and incidence of infectious disease. Indonesian infants (n = 680) were randomly assigned to daily supplementation with 10 mg Fe (Fe group), 10 mg Zn (Zn group), 10 mg Fe and 10 mg Zn (Fe+Zn group), or placebo from 6 to 12 mo of age. Anthropometric indexes, developmental indexes (Bayley Scales of Infant Development; BSID), and morbidity were recorded. At 12 mo, two-factor analysis of variance showed a significant interaction between iron and zinc for weight-for-age z score, knee-heel length, and BSID psychomotor development. Weight-for-age z score was higher in the Zn group than in the placebo and Fe+Zn groups, knee-heel length was higher in the Zn and Fe groups than in the placebo group, and the BSID psychomotor development index was higher in the Fe group than in the placebo group. No significant effect on morbidity was found. Single supplementation with zinc significantly improved growth, and single supplementation with iron significantly improved growth and psychomotor development, but combined supplementation with iron and zinc had no significant effect on growth or development. Combined, simultaneous supplementation with iron and zinc to infants cannot be routinely recommended at the iron-to-zinc ratio used in this study.
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                rbp
                Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Pediatría
                Rev. bol. ped.
                Sociedad Boliviana de Pediatría (La Paz, , Bolivia )
                1024-0675
                2010
                : 49
                : 1
                : 25-31
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                [02] orgnameInstituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos
                [01] orgnameCaja Petrolera de Salud
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                S1024-06752010000100005
                5212d8b4-d5b3-427b-a8c3-15c9cde8dd4c

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