Vitamin A deficiency and nutritional anemias among women in Sahel

Among various parameters relating to nutritional anemias, the vitaminic factors appear to play an important role in the genesis of these anemias. Investigators studied Senegalese women and pre-school children in an attempt to demonstrate the possible relationships between the plasmatic levels of vitamin A and the two hematological parameters - hemoglobin and hematocrit characteristically used to define nutritional anemias. The results suggest that the plasmatic levels of vitamin A do not relate directly to these anemias.