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Infantile anaemia 婴儿贫血 Blood simple 简单的输血 A small change in how babies are delivered might abolish infantile anaemia 分娩方式的简单改变可能帮助消灭婴儿贫血 CHILDHOOD anaemia is a problem. Around the world, almost a quarter of under-fives sufferfrom it. And anaemia is not a trivial thing. A child s development, both physical and mental,is stifled by a lack of iron. The reason is that, besides its well-known role in haemoglobin, theoxygen-transporting molecule in the blood, iron is also involved in many aspects of braindevelopment. 儿童贫血症是一个全球性的问题，将近四分之一的五岁以下儿童忍受着该病的折磨，使得我们无法忽视它。儿童身体和智力的发育，都会受到铁元素匮乏的影响，因为除了在血液中的氧气运输分子血红蛋白中发挥着众所周知的作用外，铁元素还在许多方面参与了大脑的发育。 A study just published in the British Medical Journal by Ola Andersson, an obstetrician at theHospital of Halland in Halmstad, Sweden, suggests that a simple change of medicalprocedure when a child is born may bring a big reduction in anaemia. That change is not tocut the umbilical cord linking the child with the placenta straight after birthas is standardpracticebut, rather, to give it time to transfer more of the placenta s contents to the child it has been nurturing. | 
