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Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Vanadium, and Zinc
TABLE 9-10 Summary Illustration of Median Absorbed Iron Requirements for Children and Adolescents, Aged 9 through 18 Yearsa
a Summation of the median iron components and dividing by 18 percent bioavailability does not yield values that are equivalent to the 50th and 97.5th percentile data shown in Appendix Table I-3. This is because the summation of the median of non-normal distributions (above) do not yield the median of simulation models that represent normalized data.
b Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data (not demographically weighted).
c The model assumes that all girls are menstruating at age 14.0 years and after; it also assumes that no girls reach menarche before age 14. This is not a valid assumption. In working with individuals, menstrual status can be ascertained and an adjustment can be made.