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Presentación del libro «De corazón y alma» que expone la correspondencia mantenida entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún. Plano americano de Juan Manuel Bonet ante el atril, antes de pronunciar su discurso.

Presentación del libro «De corazón y alma» que expone la correspondencia mantenida entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún. Plano medio de Javier Expósito, responsable de Comunicación de la Fundación Banco Santander.

Presentación del libro «De corazón y alma» que expone la correspondencia mantenida entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún. Plano general en el que posan ante la cámara, de izquierda a derecha, Paula Ortiz, directora y guionista de cine; Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, catedrática de Estudios Hispánicos y de Género de la Universidad de Exeter; Cristina Cerezales, escritora e hija de Carmen Laforet; Juan Manuel Bonet, director del Instituto Cervantes; Javier Expósito, responsable de Comunicación de la Fundación Banco Santander; y Beatriz Hernanz, directora de Cultura del Instituto Cervantes.

Presentación del libro «De corazón y alma» que expone la correspondencia mantenida entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún. Plano medio de Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, catedrática de Estudios Hispanos y de Género de la Universidad de Exeter.

Presentación del libro «De corazón y alma» que expone la correspondencia mantenida entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún. Plano general que muestra a los debatientes sentados. De izquierda a derecha, Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, catedrática de Estudios Hispánicos y de Género de la Universidad de Exeter; Javier Expósito, responsable de Comunicación de la Fundación Banco Santander; Paula Órtiz, directora y guionista de cine; y Cristina Cerezales, escritora e hija de Carmen Laforet.

Presentación del libro «De corazón y alma» que expone la correspondencia mantenida entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún. Plano medio de Cristina Cerezales, escritora e hija de Carmen Laforet.

Presentación del libro «De corazón y alma» que expone la correspondencia mantenida entre las escritoras Carmen Laforet y Elena Fortún. Plano medio, de izquierda a derecha, Paula Órtiz, directora y guionista de cine; y, de espalda a la cámara, Cristina Cerezales, escritora e hija de Carmen Laforet.

Dades primàries associades a l'article publicat a BMC Pediatrics, vol. 17 [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-017-0816-x], Background: Young children bear the world’s highest prevalence of anaemia, the majority of which is of multifactorial aetiology, which in turn hampers its successful prevention. Even moderate degrees of anaemia are associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Despite this evidence, there is a lack of effective preventive programs and absence of consensus in the safety of iron supplementation in malaria areas, which reflects the poor understanding of the contribution of different aetiologies to anaemia. In order to reduce the anaemia burden in the most vulnerable population, a study to determine the aetiology of anaemia among pre-school Mozambican children was performed. Methods: We undertook a case-control study of 443 preschool hospitalized children with anaemia (haemoglobin concentration <11g/dl) and 289 community controls without anaemia. Inclusion criteria were: age 1-59 months, no blood transfusion in the previous month, residence in the study area and signed informed consent. Both univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to identify factors associated with anaemia and adjusted attributable fractions (AAF) were estimated when appropriate. Results: Malaria (adjusted odds ratio (AOR)=8.39, p<0.0001; AAF=37%), underweight (AOR=8.10, p<0.0001; AAF=43%), prealbumin deficiency (AOR=7.11, p<0.0001; AAF=77%), albumin deficiency (AOR=4.29, p=0.0012; AAF=30%), HIV (AOR=5.73, p=0.0060; AAF=18%), and iron deficiency (AOR=4.05, p<0.0001; AAF=53%) were associated with anaemia. Vitamin A deficiency and α-thalassaemia were frequent (69% and 64%, respectively in cases) but not independently related to anaemia. Bacteraemia (odds ratio (OR)=8.49, p=0.004), Parvovirus-B19 (OR=6.05, p=0.017) and Epstein-Barr virus (OR=2.10, p=0.0015) infections were related to anaemia only in the unadjusted analysis. Neither vitamin B12 deficiency nor intestinal parasites were associated with anaemia. Folate deficiency was not observed. Conclusions: Undernutrition, iron deficiency, malaria, and HIV are main factors related to anaemia in hospitalised Mozambican preschool children. Effective programs and strategies for the prevention and management of these conditions need to be reinforced. Specifically, prevention of iron deficiency that accounted in this study for more than half of anaemia cases would have a high impact in reducing the burden of anaemia in children living under similar conditions. However this deficiency, a common preventable and treatable condition, remains neglected by the international public health community.