A Program of Nutritional Education in Schools Reduced the Prevalence of Iron Deficiency in Students
Table 3
Changes in ferritin, retinol, and folate concentrations in children before and after the intervention of nutritional education in schools from Aragua, TΓ‘chira, and Lara States, Venezuela. Classification by State of precedence.
Ferritin (ΞΌg/L)
Serum retinol ΞΌg/dL
Serum folate nmol/L
Before intervention
After intervention
Before intervention
After intervention
Before intervention
After intervention
Aragua
69
TΓ‘chira
179
Lara
179
Total
427
*Statistically significant difference between before and after intervention (). aDifferent superscript letters, statistically different between states ().