This Khula South Africa dataset was used for analyses on the prevalence and profile of Iron Deficiency Anaemia with adjustment for inflammation in pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants. It includes data on demographic variables as well as haematological metrics, iron metrics, and inflammatory biomarkers from the Khula South Africa cohort. Khula is a longitudinal birth cohort study that aims to characterise emerging executive functions in the first 1000 days of life in South Africa and Malawi.
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Characterizing the Impact of Antenatal Maternal Anaemia on the Child Brain using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Two South African Birth Cohorts
To demonstrate the ability to characterize fetal and infant neurodevelopmental outcomes associated with maternal iron deficiency using low field portable MRI