Comment: Structural racism and iron deficiency anaemia
Professor Ian Roberts and Professor Camara Phyllis Jones comment in The Lancet on the link between postpartum haemorrhage, iron deficiency anaemia and structural racism.
Professor Ian Roberts and Professor Camara Phyllis Jones comment in The Lancet on the link between postpartum haemorrhage, iron deficiency anaemia and structural racism.
The WOMAN-2 Trial found that a reduction in haemoglobin of 10 grams per litre of blood just before birth increased the risk of life threatening bleeding after childbirth by 23%.
Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, highlights the need to treat heavy menstrual bleeding as a …