Nutritional anemia of pregnancy in the Zulia state. 30 years later

: Thirty years ago, we reported a high frequency of nutritional anemia among pregnant women of low socioeconomic class, from Zulia State, Venezuela. Today, preliminary results, show an increase of anemia from 20% in the year of 1972 to 44% at the end of the first trimester of gestation, and from 53% to 63% at the end of the third trimester. These results could be the reflection of the impairment of the economic conditions in the country and the failure of the prenatal care services in preventing or treating anemia in pregnancy.