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A Study of Prelatent, Latent and Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Mothers and their Importance
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Malini, Parvathareddy Sudha Jahnavi, Ethakota Malini, Sudha |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Background: Anemia in pregnancy continues to be a major public health problem in the world despite decades of proposed solutions, women in developing countries are still suffering the effects of having to go through a pregnancy in an anemic state. Hence this study was conducted to assess the prevalence of anemia its latent and pre latent among the pregnant women in our geographical area. Methods: The patients age, parity,pregnancy interval,socioeconomic status etc of 100 patients (50 anemic + 50 controls) were noted and blood was collected for blood investigations which included Hb,Hemogram,serum ferritin,serum iron,TIBC,% of transferrin saturation Results: The predominant age group of the 100 patients was 21-25 years. Mean Hb of anemic group is 6.9 gm% compared to 11.9 gm% in controls. The serum iron in anemic group was 48.12 ug/dl as against 100ug/dl in control group.The mean TIBC in anemic group is 431ug/dl compared to 332 ug/dl in control.The mean transfferin satuartion in anemic group is 11.16% as against 31% in controls. In the control group 25% were found to have transferrin saturation < 25% which is abnormal and 10% cases with transfferin saturation < 16% thus identifying latent form of anemia in pregnancy i.e., who will develop Anemia in the weeks or months following diagnosis. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jdms/papers/Vol18-issue9/Series-2/D1809021526.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
