Antenatal Iron Supplementation Regimens for Pregnant Women in Rural Vietnam and Subsequent Haemoglobin Concentration and Anaemia among Their Infants

Duc Tran Thach; Jane Fisher; Sarah Hanieh; Tuan Tran; Julie Anne Simpson; Ha Tran; Beverley-Ann Biggs

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Antenatal Iron Supplementation Regimens for Pregnant Women in Rural Vietnam and Subsequent Haemoglobin Concentration and Anaemia among Their Infants

Duc Tran Thach, Jane Fisher, Sarah Hanieh, Tuan Tran, Julie Anne Simpson, Ha Tran, Beverley-Ann Biggs

PLOS ONE | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125740

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Sarah Hanieh Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Beverley-Ann Biggs Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Julie Simpson Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

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Funding Acknowledgements

The Observational study was funded by Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP0986594. This Trial was funded through a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Grant number 628751). JF is supported by a Professorial Fellowship from Monash University and the Jean Hailes Professorial Fellowship. TDT is supported by a Bridging Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Monash University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.