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Anemia
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 278371, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/278371
Community-Based Screening for Infantile Anemia in an Okinawan Village, Japan
1Graduate School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, 207 Uehara, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0215, Japan
2176 Aza Toma, Nakagusuku Village, Okinawa 901-2416, Japan
3School of Public Health, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, GPO Box U 1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
Received 26 September 2010; Accepted 4 November 2010
Academic Editor: Bruno Annibale
Copyright © 2011 Tomiko Hokama et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Infancy is a vulnerable age group for anemia throughout the world. However, community-based screening for infantile anemia is seldom reported. This study determined the prevalence of anemia among infants in an Okinawan village from 2003 to 2008, in relation to secondary prevention of the condition. The prevalence among infants aged 3–5, 6–12 and 16–23 months was 12.3%, 15.8%, and 4.2%, respectively, based on cross-sectional surveys (), and was 11.0%, 17.2%, and 3.9% according to another retrospective cohort study (). The relatively low prevalence of anemia at early childhood suggested that previous detection and treatment through early and late infantile screening had been successful.