STUDY OF PREVALENCE AND MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF ANAEMIA IN ADULT AND GERIATRIC POPULATION: A HOSPITAL-BASED STUDY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 69
Abstract
BACKGROUND Literature reviews suggest that elderly are susceptible to severe complication due to anaemia compared to the younger ones. WHO defines that male <13 g/dL and female <12 g/dL should be termed as anaemic. Nearly 23.9% of the global population was anaemic. The prevalence of anaemia increases with age and that too females under 75 years were commonly affected compared to males. However, data regarding patterns of anaemia in Pondicherry is very less. This prompted us to study the morphological patterns and prevalence of anaemia for adults and geriatric population in a tertiary care hospital at Pondicherry. AIMS 1. To study the prevalence of anaemia >45 years in a tertiary care hospital for a period of three months; 2. To study the morphological patterns of anaemia >45 years in a tertiary care hospital for a period of three months. METHODS AND MATERIAL This was a hospital-based observational study of patients >45 years who have attended clinical pathology lab for a period of one month. Patients having haemoglobin concentration below the normal value, that is <13 g/dL for male and <12 g/dL for female were selected. Complete blood count and peripheral smear were collected from these selected patients records. All the data were entered in Epi Info version 3.5.1 and analysed. Data were expressed as percentage. RESULTS Out of 1583 anaemic patients, 675 were found to be above 45 years old. In this present study, most common pattern of anaemia is normocytic normochromic anaemia (68.9%) followed by microcytic hypochromic anaemia (27.7%), then macrocytic anaemia amounting to (1.5%) and (1.9%) were dimorphic anaemia. CONCLUSION Anaemia act as a base for many diseases. It is necessary to evaluate the anaemic status in adult and elderly patients, because most of the time the patterns of anaemia will lead the diagnosis and it is a treatable one as well as treatment for anaemia is simple and also available in all primary care hospitals.
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Ramya , Nitya , Vimal , Rajeshwari
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