Pregnancy anaemia, child health and development: a cohort study in rural India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess how pregnancy anaemia affects the offspring's early childhood development, child haemoglobin (Hb) levels child growth and diseases incidence 2 years after birth in a low-income setting. Furthermore, we investigate the mediating role of childhood Hb levels with disease incidences and skills.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting and participants

The study participants are 941-999 mother-child dyads from rural Madhepura in Bihar, India. In 2015, the women were recruited during pregnancy from registers in mother-child centres of 140 villages for the first wave of data collection. At the time of the second wave in 2017, the children were 22-32 months old.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The recruited women were visited at home for a ho

SUBMITTER: Heesemann E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593731 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature