Prevalence of anemia in pregnant women and its correlates in a district hospital of Tamil Nadu: A hospital based cross sectional study
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Gynaecology - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Anemia during pregnancy is an important cause for maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide more so in developing countries. The objective of the present study was to describe the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women attending antenatal check-up and also to identify the factors correlating with presence of anemia in a tertiary care teaching hospital in one of the districts of Tamil Nadu. Methods: A hospital based cross sectional study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Thiurvarur Medical College and Hospital, Tamil Nadu. The study was conducted between January 2017 and June 2017. Only those pregnant women whose gestational age was 37 weeks or more were included in the study. We followed following cut offs for defining anemia during pregnancy. The hemoglobin levels of >11 mg/dL was considered as normal, 10–11 mg/dL as mild, 7–9.9 mg/dL as moderate, and <7 mg/dL as severe anemia. Results and Conclusion: Our study showed that the prevalence of anemia was very high in this study setting. In the present study, most of the women were between 20-30 years old. In our study, 14.1% of the pregnant had mild anemia, 46.8% had moderate anemia and 9.1% had severe anemia. Prevalence of anemia increased with the increase in gravida and this was statistically significant (p value=0.011). As expected, the prevalence of anemia was higher in pregnant women residing in rural areas with those from urban area.
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Suganya Muthu, Sumathi Chidambaram
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