Iron status and anemia in a representative sample of US pregnant women is not associated with pre-pregnancy BMI: Results from the NHANES (1999–2010) study

• Mihaela A. Ciulei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Kelly Gallagher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Djibril M. Ba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Celeste Beck,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Ruth A. Pobee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Alison D. Gernand,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-7785

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• Rachel E. Walker

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rew5009@psu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-858X

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