AAP Updates Pediatric Screening Guidance to Focus on Early Iron Deficiency Detection
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Brittany Vargas
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released new screening guidance shifting focus from detecting iron deficiency anemia to identifying iron deficiency earlier in children, before it progresses to anemia. The recommendations include universal screening for teenage girls, who are at high risk. The approach is considered practice-changing because iron deficiency can affect brain development even before anemia becomes apparent, and some developmental consequences may persist if deficiency is prolonged.
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· 2 pulledThe focus on iron deficiency rather than iron deficiency anemia is practice changing.
Iron deficiency can affect a child's developing brain before anemia is apparent, and some developmental consequences may persist even after treatment if the deficiency is prolonged.
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