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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Saputri, Resti Dona
• Usman, Andi Nilawati
• Widaningsih, Yuyun
• Jafar, Nurhaedar
• Ahmad, Mardiana
• Ramadhani, Sri
• Dirpan, Andi

Titel

Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) consumption as a nutrition source for mild anemia

Ist Teil von

• Gaceta sanitaria, 2021, Vol.35, p.S271-S274

Ort / Verlag

Spain: Elsevier España, S.L.U

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The purpose of this review is to describe an intervention that utilizes dates as a source of nutrition for pregnant women to increase hemoglobin levels in the blood in anemia incidence. The findings in this study are related to the use of dates to increase hemoglobin levels in the blood in pregnant women. This study uses search databases used in PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar. The keywords used in the initial search for articles are dates and hemoglobin obtained as many as 189 articles. At the time of using the keywords dates, hemoglobin, anemia by obtaining 15 articles and which are used only 10 articles according to the analysis of the purpose, suitability of the topic, the method of research used, sample size, research ethics, the results of each article, as well as limitations that occur. Anemia in pregnant women causes hemoglobin (Hb) levels to decrease in the blood; the capacity of oxygen transfer to meet the needs of vital organs in the mother and fetus is reduced. All literature reviewed shows that administration of dates increases hemoglobin levels; only one literature shows no influence of consumes date juice on hemoglobin level. The majority of the literature reviewed is mild anemia. There are effective results in the implementation of health promotion of increased hemoglobin levels in the blood in pregnant women by utilizing dates as a source of nutrition.