PEDIATRICS Vol. 68 No. 6 December 1981, pp. 828-833
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Iron Deficiency and Behavioral Deficits

Amos Deinard MD1, Anne Gilbert BA1, Michele Dodds BA1, and Byron Egeland PhD1

1 Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Minneapolis Health Department, and Departments of Pediatrics and Psychoeducational Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

In an attempt to investigate the relationship of iron deficiency and mental status, cognitive development and attending behavior were assessed in nonanemic children aged 11 to 13 months who were severely or mildly iron deficient or were iron replete. Using two different approaches to the assessment of cognitive development and an habituation measure as an index of attending behavior, no statistically significant differences could be demonstrated in the overall level of performance between the iron-depleted and the iron-replete children. Isolated differences were demonstrated on a scale that measured fearfulness and on several of the scales that measured sensory areas of interest displayed.

Submitted on August 25, 1980
Accepted on March 11, 1981




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