Publications by authors named "O Y Addo"
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- Hemoglobin and hematocrit are common tests to identify anemia, but their results can differ significantly, particularly in children and pregnant individuals.
- The study analyzed data from 7,052 children and 1,437 pregnant persons, revealing that anemia estimates based on hemoglobin and hematocrit varied, with a notable percentage detected by only one test.
- The findings suggest that using these biomarkers interchangeably could lead to underdiagnosis and lack of treatment for anemia, emphasizing the need for accurate assessments in clinical practice.
Background: Diversity is a key component of diet quality and health, but no indicator exists for adolescents under the age of 15 y.
Objectives: To establish a dichotomous indicator for population-level assessment of adolescent dietary diversity as a proxy for micronutrient adequacy.
Methods: We used the probability approach to construct mean probability of adequacy (MPA) of 11 micronutrients from 2 d of 24-h dietary recall data from NHANES, 2007-2018.
Introduction: Blood source is a known preanalytical factor affecting hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations, and there is evidence that capillary and venous blood may yield disparate Hb levels and anemia prevalence. However, data from adolescents are scarce.
Objective: To compare Hb and anemia prevalence measured by venous and individual pooled capillary blood among a sample of girls aged 10-19 years from 232 schools in four regions of Ghana in 2022.
Serum ferritin (SF) concentration is the most widely used indicator for iron deficiency (ID). During pregnancy, the World Health Organization recently recommended SF thresholds for ID of <15 μg/L for the first trimester of pregnancy, based on expert opinion, and made no recommendations for the second and third trimesters. We examined the relationship of SF with 2 independent indicators of the onset of iron-deficient erythropoiesis, hemoglobin and soluble transferrin receptor 1, in cross-sectional data from US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 1999 to 2010 and 2015 to 2018.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatients with Fanconi anemia (FA) are often perceived to have poor growth when general population growth curves are utilized. We hypothesize that FA patients have unique growth and aimed to create FA-specific growth charts. Height and weight data from ages 0 to 20 years were extracted from medical records of patients treated at the Fanconi Anemia Comprehensive Care Clinic at the University of Minnesota.
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