Prevalence of Nutritional Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Females of Adilabad
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Abstract:The prevalence of nutritional deficiency especially the iron deficiency anemia is very common in pregnant females of developing countries, more so in the rural and tribal population. We in the present study tried to evaluate the prevalence of anemia in 300 females in 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimester attending ANC in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital [RIMS], Adilabad. The Institutional Ethical committee permission was obtained for the study. 100 patients in each of the three trimesters were included in the study all the pregnant ladies were healthy without any significant medical disorders. The blood samples were collected from the peripheral vein in 5ml vacutainer and send to the Department of Pathology for examination. The Department of Pathology, RIMS Adilabad uses 5 part hematology cell counter (Sysmex Xn 1000 manufactured by Sysmex India Pvt. Ltd Mumbai) to obtain all the hematological parameters. The mean levels of hemoglobin in n=100 patients of 1 trimester were 8.38 ± 1.5 gm/dl, the mean levels of Hb in n =100 patients of 2nd trimester was 8.34 ± 1.24 similarly the mean Hb levels of n=100 patients in the third trimester was 7.75 ± 1.02. The hemoglobin levels of 10.0 – 10.9 gm/dl was classified as mild anemia in our study 10.83% of pregnant ladies had mild anemia. Between 7.0 – 10.0 it was classified as moderate 76.67% of pregnant ladies had moderate anemia, < 7.0 gm/dl was classified as severe 12.5% had severe anemia and < 4.0 gm/dl was classified as very severe (decompensated) anemia no case of very severe anemia was present in this study. The presence of nutritional deficiency anemia is very common in the tribal pregnant females of Adilabad. Although all the pregnant females receive duly the dose of iron and folic acid supplementations during the Antenatal care there needs to be good nutritional supplementation provided to reduce the burden of anemia in the pregnant females of this area. Keywords: Anemia, Pregnant females, Adilabad.
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K Rama, G Satyanarayana
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