Iron Requirement Calculator
Iron Requirement: a planned Super Calculator tool. Covers age, sex and pregnancy status. Stub page while the tool and its worked example are prepared.
Iron Requirement Calculator is a planned calculator in the health section of Super Calculator, covering macros and nutrition.
What this calculator will compute
Inputs: age, sex, pregnancy status, diet type and country reference.
Outputs: iron target (mg/day) and upper limit (mg/day).
Formula, recorded as scope and not yet verified against a primary source: Requirement banded by age, sex, menstruation and pregnancy status against national reference intakes: the US RDA is 8 mg/day for adult men and 18 mg/day for menstruating women, rising to 27 mg/day in pregnancy. Vegetarian requirement is conventionally scaled by 1.8 for lower non-heme bioavailability.
Status
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