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The goal was to utilise the existing national-level data to assess whether anaemia in non-pregnant women was reduced after countries began fortifying wheat flour, alone or in combination with maize flour, with at least Fe, folic acid, vitamin A or vitamin B\n                    <jats:sub>12<\/jats:sub>\n                    . Nationally representative anaemia data were identified through Demographic and Health Survey reports, the WHO Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System database and other national-level nutrition surveys. Countries with at least two anaemia surveys were considered for inclusion. Within countries, surveys were excluded if altitude was not consistently adjusted for, or if the blood-draw site (e.g. capillary or venous) or Hb quantification method (e.g. HemoCue or Cyanmethaemoglobin) differed. Anaemia prevalence was modelled for countries that had pre- and post-fortification data (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    12) and for countries that never fortified flour (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    20) using logistic regression models that controlled for time effects, human development index (HDI) and endemic malaria. After adjusting for HDI and malaria, each year of fortification was associated with a 2\u00b74\u00a0% reduction in the odds of anaemia prevalence (PR 0\u00b7976, 95\u00a0% CI 0\u00b7975, 0\u00b7978). Among countries that never fortified, no reduction in the odds of anaemia prevalence over time was observed (PR 0\u00b7999, 95\u00a0% CI 0\u00b7997, 1\u00b7002). Among both fortification and non-fortification countries, HDI and malaria were significantly associated with anaemia (\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt;\u00a00\u00b7001). 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