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Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions may increase the risk of global iron deficiency [1]

Iron deficiency reduces capacity for physical activity, lowers IQ, and increases maternal and child mortality, impacting roughly a billion people worldwide. Recent studies have shown that certain highly consumed crops — C3 grains (e.g., wheat, rice, barley), legumes and maize — have lower iron concentrations of 4-10% when grown under increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations (550 ppm). We examined diets in 152 countries globally (95.5% of the population) to estimate the percentage of lost dietary iron resulting from anthropogenic CO2 emissions between now and 2050, specifically among vulnerable age-sex groups: children (1-5 years) and women of childbearing age (15-49 years), holding diets constant. We also cross-referenced these with the current prevalence of anemia to identify most at-risk countries.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
25/05/2017
M. R. Smith [3], C. D. Golden [4], S. S. Myers [5]
GeoHealth [6]
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Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [7], Anaemia [8], Climate Impacts [9], Health Effects [10], Maternal Health [11], Nutritional Diseases [12], Food Crops [13], India [14], Africa [15], Asia [16], Vegetables [17], Legumes [18], China [19]

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[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GH000018/abstract
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/s-s-myers
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/geohealth
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