European journal of haematology

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Eur. J. Haematol. · May 2005

Haemoglobin and anaemia in a gender perspective: the Tromsø Study.

To examine the gender-specific distribution of haemoglobin (Hb) and the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for anaemia compared with the 2.5 percentile for Hb. ⋯ The WHO criteria for anaemia and the 2.5 percentile for Hb corresponded well for men, but not for women. The WHO criteria of anaemia may result in medicalization of healthy women.

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