Prevalence of anaemia in females with type-II diabetes mellitus
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RECENT TRENDS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Year 2017, Vol 22, Issue 3
Abstract
It is a well-known fact and proven that industrialization and modernization has landed in sedentary lifestyle, obesity and higher risk of metabolic disorder, of which diabetes and hypertension are predominant, that are commonly reported in clinical medicine. In the present study prevalence of anemia in female patients with type II diabetes mellitus patients who had been followed for a median of seven years has been considered and classification of anemia based on wintrobe’s constant and RDW along with the other common hematological parameters hailing from rural areas in and around Chidambaram, Cuddalore district, Tamilnadu, India has been made. A total of randomly selected 87 type II diabetes mellitus females aging above 20 years attending diabetic OPD regularly in Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital during the period of July to December 2016 were included in this study. 57.62% of subject with female preponderance out of 151 cases reported during the above period. Normocytic normochromic anemia was the most common type anemia that is reported.
Authors and Affiliations
M Dhanalakshmi, K R Gopalakrishnan, B Krishnaswamy, Valluvan Manimozhi, Viswanathan P
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