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Prenatal iron deficiency occurs in more than 30% of pregnancies in Canada.11 It has been linked with low birth weight, small for gestational age size, preterm birth, need for blood transfusion for the mother, postpartum hemorrhage22,33 and long-term neurocognitive effects in childhood.[4
Malinowski et al. (2021) studied this question.