[Iron deficiency and pregnancy. A survey in a Mother and Child Care Center in Niamey (Niger)].

A survey carried out in a mother and child care Center in Niamey (Niger) in 1989 has revealed the association of a ferruginous deficiency phase II and III in pregnant women examined in the 8th month of their pregnancy and not presenting any sign of microcytic hypochromic anemia. A preventive and a curative therapy was proposed to these pregnant women in order to correct this ferruginous deficiency without waiting for a hypochromic anemia be evident.