Iron Supplementation and Child Development: A Presentation by Susan Walker

by Susan Walker, PhD, from the Child Development Research Group, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. The presentation discusses the importance of iron for brain development, the effects of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) on child development, and the benefits of iron supplementation in various age groups. It also reviews previous studies on iron supplementation and development, highlighting the limitations of previous reviews and presenting a new analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of iron supplementation in children under two years old.