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| | Anaemia in women high due to poverty, poor diet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | NARYN, 15 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Health officials in the central Kyrgyz province of Naryn say that the high prevalence of anaemia among women of child-bearing age in the area could result in a weakening of the national gene pool, citing poverty as the main cause of the problem. |
 | | Aychurok Isaeva, a doctor at the family health centre in Naryn, the provincial capital, told IRIN that the consequences of anaemia were dramatic. |
 | | Naryn province is home to some 270,000 people and the number of women of fertile age in the area is about 56,000, of which an estimated 34,000 suffer anaemia. |
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