Questions? Call 888-624-8373

PAPERBACK
list:$31.50
Web:$28.35
add to cart

PDF BOOK
your price: $24.50
add to cart

Rights & Permissions

topleft topright

Iron Deficiency Anemia: Recommended Guidelines for the Prevention, Detection, and Management Among U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age (1993)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Page
115
bottomleft bottomright

The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.


TABLE D-1 Iron Levels in Diets of Adult Males, Infant, and Toddlers

 

 

Iron Level (mg/day)

Diet and Year

No. of Collections

Mean

Standard Deviation

Adult diets

 

 

 

1974

30

20.0ab

3.0

1975

20

18.0b

3.1

1976

20

18.2ab

3.1

1977

25

18.3ab

5.8

1978

20

17.9b

4.1

1979

20

18.3ab

4.2

1980

20

21.0a

5.1

1981-82

27

18.4ab

3.2

Infant diets

 

 

 

1975

10

7.4a

5.7

1976

10

7.3a

4.0

1977

12

6.8a

3.6

1978

10

4.7a

2.1

1979

10

9.6a

10.3

1980

10

10.2a

4.8

1981-82

13

9.5a

6.3

Toddler diets

 

 

 

1975

10

11.1a

3.8

1975

10

10.1a

3.2

1977

12

8.5a

2.6

1978

10

7.7a

2.3

1979

10

11.9a

11.5

1980

10

9.1a

12.0

1981-1982

13

9.0a

1.7

NOTE: Mean values within each diet category with the same superscript are not significantly different. Adult diets are based on 2, 850 kcal/day. Infant (6 months) diets are based on 880 kcal/day. Toddler (2 years) diets are based on 1,300 kcal/day.

SOURCE: Pennington et al. (1984).

Page
115