According to the journal The Lancet Haematology, in 2021 31.2 percent of women had anemia, compared to 17.5 percent of men.

The gender difference was most pronounced during the reproductive years, between 15 and 49 years of age.

In this age group, the prevalence of anemia in the female sex was 33.7 percent compared to 11.3 in the male.

This issue revolves around access to nutrition, socioeconomic status, the unmet need for contraceptives, and the ability to identify and treat the underlying causes of anemia, stress researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in the United States, and of the Global Burden of Disease.

In the opinion of experts, the main problem in 2021 was the lack of iron in the diet, which constituted 66.2 percent of the total cases, with 825 million women and 444 million men affected worldwide.

Inadequate iron intake could be the most common cause of anemia, but there are other driving conditions for this condition.

Specialists discovered that gynecological disorders and maternal bleeding were important contributors to this disease among women of reproductive age.

In the case of children under 5 years of age, the main cause of anemia was a lack of iron in the diet.

“Anemia manifests itself differently depending on the group that suffers from it. In the case of children, anemia can affect brain development and cognition, so timely treatment and management are crucial,” researchers warn in The Lancet Haematology.

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