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Effective interventional approach to control anaemia in pregnant women through avoidance of flouride - Current Science paper

Infant and maternal maternal mortality still plague India despite nutrition counselling, iron and folic acid supplements. Another approach to combat this is of fluoride avoidance

A K Susheela

Current Science

Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital

Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation

Shashikant Brahmankar

Posted on 11 Nov, 2010 07:33 PM

This paper from Current Science deals with anaemia in pregnancy and low birth weight babies, which can lead to maternal and infant mortality, and continues to plague India and several other countries despite nutritional counselling and maternal iron and folic acid supplementation. It reports the results of fluoride avoidance as an approach to address the issue. The methodology of the research entailed the following -

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