Dietary Iron Intake in Women of Reproductive Age in Europe: A Review of 49 Studies from 29 Countries in the Period 1993–2015

Table 2

Association between nutrient density for iron and dietary iron intake arranged according to the magnitude of nutrient density.

Country	Reference	Dietary iron density (mg/10 MJ)	Dietary iron intake (mg/day)
Lithuania	[23]	23.0^1	19^2
Estonia	[23]	17.0^1	11^1
Latvia	[23]	17.0^1	12^2
France	[26]	15.8^2	11.8^2
Spain	[50]	14.1^1	11.1^1
Finland	[25]	14.0^1	10.3^2
Belgium	[17]	13.1^2	10.6^2
Denmark	[22]	11.9^2	9.8^2
Sweden	[53]	11.8^2	9.0^2

¹Arithmetic mean; ²median; Spearman’s rho = 0.91, .