PEDIATRICS Vol. 48 No. 6 December 1971, pp. 1001
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Letters to the Editor

L. J. Filer Jr. 1

1 Committee on Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics

Doctor Filer comments as follows:

If we define nutritional iron deficiency on the basis of a hemoglobin level less than 10 gm per 100 ml, the incidence of this deficiency state among infants of middle-upper socioeconomic groups appears to range from 3 to 8%.1-3 In a nutritional survey of children 1 to 6 years of age composited to resemble the U.S., Owen and co-workers found the incidence of nutritional iron deficiency among infants 12 to 23 months of age to be 6%.4