Intermittent iron supplementation in women can reduce anaemia and has less side effects than daily supplementation
Vanessa Jordan 1
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1 New Zealand Cochrane Fellow, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: v.jordan@auckland.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 11(1) 80-81 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC15941
Published: 3 April 2019
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2019.
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