While iron deficiency anemia is uncommon in the US, milder degrees of iron deficiency are still common in toddlers, teenage girls, and women of childbearing age, federal health officials
report in the October 11th issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report October.
“One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce iron deficiency in these vulnerable populations by 3-4 percentage points,” Dr. Anne Looker, CDC senior research epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues explain in the MMWR. Specifically, the goals are iron deficiency rates of 5%, 1%, and 7% for toddlers, preschool children, and females aged 12-49, respectively.
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