ROUTINE IRON SUPPLEMENTATION EFFICACY STUDIES IN PREGNANT WOMEN RECOMMENDED
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
ROUTINE IRON SUPPLEMENTATION EFFICACY STUDIES IN PREGNANT WOMEN RECOMMENDED by the Institute of Medicine in a Jan. 7 report on iron deficiency anemia. The report, compiled at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cites the need for a "large, well-designed, randomly controlled trial of routine iron supplementation in women who do not have frank iron deficiency anemia in early pregnancy." The report was written by the Committee on the Prevention, Detection and Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia Among U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age, which was established within IoM's Food and Nutrition Board.