Table 1.
Comparison of 2001 WHO Guidelines and 2024 Guidelines for the diagnosis of anemia among children aged <5 years.
Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of the sample of infants and children aged 6-59 months residing in the 13 districts of Puno, Peru.
Fig 1.
Prevalences of anemia in infants aged 6 to 59 months residing in Puno, by category.
Black bar, mild anemia. Black lines bar, moderate anemia. And, gray bar, severe anemia calculated based on old and new WHO guidelines.
Fig 2.
Prevalence of anemia according to age groups 6 to 59, 6 to 23, and 24 to 59 months of age adjusted for old WHO guidelines (Anemia according to WHO 2001 guideline) and new WHO guidelines (Anemia according to WHO 2024 guideline) for both hemoglobin cutoff and altitude adjustment.
*All comparisons were made using the chi-square test.
Table 3.
Hemoglobin, iron, and inflammatory status in children aged 6-59 months using 2024 WHO anemia guidelines.
Table 4.
Prevalence of anemia, iron deficiency anemia (IDA), inflammation-mediated anemia and attributable fractions through unadjusted comparisons.
Table 5.
Unadjusted, bivariate analyses between the different candidate features and anemia as the outcome.
Table 6.
Reduced Modified Poisson Regression models with proportion of anemia attributable to ID and inflammation for each level of severity of anemia according to WHO-2024.