Abstract
In an urban clinic providing abortions, it was noted that many women presenting for abortion were anemic. The U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III established prevalence of anemia, defined as a hemoglobin lower than 120 g/ L, at 5.1% of the non-pregnant women in the population [1]. There are observational studies that associate anemia diagnosed prior to midpregnancy with increased risk of pre-term delivery, low birth weight, and fetal mortality [2,3]. A metaanalysis of trials of iron supplementation in pregnancy showed no detectable effect on any substantive functional measures of either maternal or fetal outcome [4]. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of anemia in this population, identify
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