{"id":4333,"date":"2018-10-29T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:58:59","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-anemia-among-adults-aged-65-years-or-older-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-and-nutrition-examination-survey-2013-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/10\/29\/4333\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of Anemia Among Adults Aged 65 Years or Older, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6742a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/figures\/mm6742a8-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2013\u20132016, the prevalence of anemia among persons aged 65 years or older increased with increasing age for both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Among men, the prevalence increased from 7.4% for those aged 65\u201374 years to 39.5% for those aged 85 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of women with anemia increased from 7.6% for those aged 65\u201374 years to 21.9% for those aged 85 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of anemia was higher for men compared to women among those aged 75\u201384 years and those aged 85 years or older.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013\u20132016.\u00a0<a class=\"tp-link-policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm<\/a>; Seitz AE, et al. Anemia prevalence and trends in adults aged 65 and older: U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: 2001\u20132004 to 2013\u20132016.\u00a0<a class=\"tp-link-policy tp-external-link-fix\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/jgs.15530\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/jgs.15530<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6742a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6742a8.htm\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2013\u20132016, the prevalence of anemia among persons aged 65 years or older increased with increasing age for both men and women. Among men, the prevalence increased from 7.4% for those aged 65\u201374 years to 39.5% for those aged 85 years or older. The percentage of women with anemia increased from 7.6% for those aged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62218,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}