Meta-analysis on prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in Chinese children aged 0-14 years from 2000 to 2020 / 中国学校卫生

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Objective@#To systematically review the prevalence of iron-deficiency anemia among children aged 0-14 years in China from 2000 to 2020, and to provide a reference for prevention and controlling of IDA among Chinese children.@*Methods@#CNKI, CBM, WanFang Data, VIP databases, PubMed, Embase and Web of Science were electronically searched to collect crosssectional studies on the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in children aged 0-14 years of China from 2000 to April 2020. Two reviewers independently conducted literature screening, methodological evaluation and data extraction, and used Stata 13.0 software to combine the data to estimate the prevalence. The Q test and I 2 statistics were used to evaluate the heterogeneity of studies. Begg and Egger test were used to evaluater.@*Results@#A total of 60 articles were included, including 122 771 children, among whom 28 693 were sick. Meta-analysis results showed that the total prevalence rate of children aged 0-14 years in China from 2000 to 2020 was 19.9%. The prevalence rate of girls (18.7%) was higher than that of boys (16.9%), and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05). The prevalence rate was highest in infancy(30.3%), followed by in early childhood(16.7%). From 2006 to 2010, the prevalence rate of children was the highest(22.6%). In recent years, the prevalence rate of children with iron deficiency anemia was lower than before. Mild anemia was found in 88.7% of the children, and moderate or severe anemia was found in 11.3% of the children. The prevalence rate of children in western China was the highest, 31.9% and 28.3% respectively, and the incidence rate in east China(13.1%), south China (14.0%) and northeast China (16.6%) was relatively low. The prevalence rate of rural children (25.6%) was much higher than that of urban children(9.1%), especially in western rural areas.@*Conclusion@#The prevalence of iron-deficiency anemia among children aged 0-14 years in China from 2000 to 2020 is still high and the differences between different regions are significant, so more attention should be paid to the prevention and treatment of iron-deficiency anemia among infants and children in poor areas.