TO STUDY CORRELATION BETWEEN HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS AND THE USE OF BIOMASS FUEL (WOOD) FOR COOKING BY FEMALES IN RURAL AREAS OF LUCKNOW DISTRICT
Journal Title: Era's Journal of Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Hemoglobin is the protein molecule present in red blood cells that carries O from the lungs to the body tissues and returns CO from the 2 2 tissues back to the lungs. The red blood cells have the ability to concentrate hemoglobin in the cell fluid up to about 34 grams in each 100 ml of cells. Anemia refers to a reduced oxygen carrying capacity of blood either due to reduced red blood cell count or decreased hemoglobin concentration. Anemia in women apart from many other causes is possibly due to the result of systemic inflammation which is probably because of the smoke of biomass fuels. To study correlation between hemoglobin levels and use of biomass fuel (wood) for cooking by females in rural areas of Lucknow district. The examination was done on the 44 females between 18 to 55 years of age and cooking food using biomass fuels for at least 5 years. Women who were pregnant, having history of bleeding disorders like hemophilia and Thalassaemia, history of tobacco intake, history of medications like steroids and history of hemorrhoids were excluded from the study. Examination of the blood sample for hemoglobin estimation was collected in the rural health training center (RHTC) of Era's Lucknow medical college and Hospital and hemoglobin estimation was done in the hospital lab services (HLS) Era's Lucknow medical college and hospital, which use fully analyzing method SYSMEX XS 8001for hemoglobin estimation . The correlation between biomass fuel (wood) smoke and hemoglobin levels was strongly positive and statistically highly significant (p= 0.004). The decrease in hemoglobin levels due to exposure to indoor air pollution resulting from the burning of biomass fuels in smoky fires for cooking have important implications for diagnosis of anemia.
Authors and Affiliations
Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Eqbal Anwer, Seema Singh, Charu Mishra
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP622213
- DOI 10.24041/ejmr2018.83
- Views 146
- Downloads 0
Prepucial Epstein Pearls: Revisited
Milia are minute follicular epidermal cysts, commonly found over the cheeks, nose, upper lip, forehead, and rarely over the areolae and genitalia. Prepucial milia (Prepucial Epstein pearl), are pearly white papules, 1...
SPHENOCHOANAL POLYP RIGHT WITH LEFT SEPTAL SPUR: RARE ENTITY
Choanal polyps can be classified as antrochoanal, sphenochoanal or ethmochoanal polyps depending upon the site of origin, in comparison to common nasal polyps and antrochoanal polyps, reports of sphenochoanal polyps are...
CLINICAL ANATOMY BY REGIONS: RICHARD S SNELL
Basic knowledge of anatomy is essential to interpret the clinical observations as they put their hands or look at the patients. It is the department of anatomy where they learn basic medical vocabulary that they carry th...
THYROID STIMULATORY HORMONE (TSH) REFERENCE RANGES IN THE NORMAL PREGNANT WOMEN OF LUCKNOW
Maternal hypothyroidism is known to be associated with adverse perinatal outcomes. This study was done to evaluate the normal reference range of TSH in pregnant women. 483 pregnant women on their first visit to Obstetric...
CYTOLOGY OF ADRENAL LESIONS
Cystic and solid lesions in the adrenal glands commonly present as mass lesions and have varied etiology as infectious diseases, benign eysts, adrenal neoplastic lesions and metastasis. Smaller sized and nonfunctional sm...