Furthermore, Malaysia’s scheduled national health survey reported an increasing trend of non-communicable diseases’ prevalence, particularly diabetes mellitus [ 4 ].
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Introduction The global prevalence of anemia showed a decreasing trend from 27.0% in 2013 to 22.8% in 2019; however, it still affects nearly one quarter of the world population [ 1 , 2 ].