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Related publications using information from the Micronutrients Database

Vitamin A supplementation programs and country-level evidence of vitamin A deficiency.
Wirth JP, Petry N, Tanumihardjo SA, Rogers LM, McLean E, Greig A et al. Nutrients. 2017 Feb 24;9(3).

Trends and mortality effects of vitamin A deficiency in children in 138 low-income and middle-income countries between 1991 and 2013: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys.
Stevens GA, Bennett JE, Hennocq Q, Lu Y, De-Regil LM, Rogers Let al. Lancet Glob Health. 2015 Sep;3(9):e528-36.

Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995-2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative.
Stevens GA, Finucane MM, De-Regil LM, Paciorek CJ, Flaxman SR, Branca F et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2013 Jul;1(1):e16-25.

An evaluation of a global vitamin and mineral nutrition surveillance system.
Aburto NJ, Rogers L, De-Regil LM, Kuruchittham V, Rob G, Arif R, Pena-Rosas JP. Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2013 Jun;63(2):105-13.

Global iodine status in 2011 and trends over the past decade.
Andersson M, Karumbunathan V, Zimmermann MB. J Nutr. 2012 Apr;142(4):744-50.

WHO Haemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anaemia and assessment of severity.
Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2011

Global anaemia reduction efforts among women of reproductive age: impact, achievement of targets and the way forward for optimizing efforts
Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. Licence: CC BY-NCSA 3.0 IGO.

Nutritional anaemias: tools for effective prevention and control
Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

World Health Organization. (‎2014)‎. Global nutrition targets 2025: anaemia policy brief
World Health Organization

Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995–2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data
Stevens GA, Finucane MM, De-Regil LM, Paciorek CJ, Flaxman SR, Branca F, Peña-Rosas JP et al. Lancet Glob Health 2013; 1: e16–25

National, regional, and global estimates of anaemia by severity in women and children for 2000–19: a pooled analysis of population-representative data
Stevens GA, Paciorek CJ, Flores-Urrutia MC, Borghi E, Namaste S, Wirth JP et al. Lancet Glob Health 2022; 10: e627–39

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