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Prevalence and possible factors associated with anaemia, and vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies in women of reproductive age in Pakistan: analysis of national-level secondary survey data Sajid Soofi,1 Gul Nawaz Khan,1 Kamran Sadiq,1 Shabina Ariff,1 Atif Habib,1 Sumra Kureishy,1 Imtiaz Hussain,1 Muhammad Umer,1 Zamir Suhag,1 Arjumand Rizvi,1 Zulfiqar Bhutta1,2
To cite: Soofi S, Khan GN, Sadiq K, et al. Prevalence and possible factors associated with anaemia, and vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies in women of reproductive age in Pakistan: analysis of national-level secondary survey data. BMJ Open 2017;7:e018007. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2017-018007 ►► Prepublication history for this paper is available online. To view these files, please visit the journal online (http://dx.doi. org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017- 018007).
Received 7 June 2017 Revised 20 September 2017 Accepted 3 November 2017
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Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan 2 Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada Correspondence to Dr Sajid Soofi; sajid.soofi@aku.edu
Abstract Objective To determine the prevalence and possible factors associated with anaemia, and vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies in women of reproductive age (WRA) in Pakistan. Methods A secondary analysis was conducted on data collected through the large-scale National Nutrition Survey in Pakistan in 2011. Anaemia was defined as haemoglobin levels
