Iron status indicators and prevalence of anemia and other nutritional and non-nutritional conditions in urban Amazonian childrena.

IQR, interquartile ranges.aTotals in brackets differ from the total number of study children by age group because of missing values.bCut-offs for anemia: cCut-offs for microcytosis by age: dPF: esTfR: >8.3 mg/L;fCut-off for high CRP: >5 mg/L;gCRP index defined as (0.34+0.0043×PF – [2.7×sTfR]/PF+0.00696×CRP+0.05×sTfR);hSerum retinol iSerum vitamin B12jSerum folate kAccording to cut-offs for PF or sTfR.lGeohelminths in this population included Ascaris lumbricoides (overall prevalence, 2.4%), Strongyloides stercoralis (0.5%), and Trichuris trichiura (0.8%) - the same subject may be co-infected with more than one species.