Anaemia and iron status of pregnant and non-pregnant women in the guinea savanna of Nigeria
| Autor: | H. S. Isah, C. C. Ekwempu, I. A. O. Ujah, A. F. Fleming |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Anemia 030231 tropical medicine Nigeria Hemoglobins 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy 030225 pediatrics medicine Humans Anemia Hypochromic medicine.diagnostic_test Obstetrics Transferrin saturation business.industry Pregnancy Complications Hematologic Transferrin Iron Deficiencies Iron deficiency medicine.disease Non pregnant Surgery Parity Infectious Diseases Social Class Ferritins Serum iron Female Parasitology Iron status Parity (mathematics) business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology. 79:485-493 |
| ISSN: | 1364-8594 0003-4983 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00034983.1985.11811952 |
| Popis: | Haemoglobin concentration, serum iron, iron binding capacity, transferrin saturation, free erythrocyte protoporphyrin and serum ferritin (SF) were measured in 66 elite non-pregnant and 95 pregnant (27 elite and 68 non-elite) Nigerian women at Zaria, in the guinea savanna. Anaemia (as defined) was observed in 46% non-pregnant, 37% pregnant elite and 52% pregnant non-elite women. Iron deficiency (as defined) was diagnosed in 54, 30 and 25%, respectively. The mean SF in pregnant elite (28.9 micrograms l-1 was lower, but not significantly, than in pregnant non-elite women (33.6 micrograms l-1, either because of less inflammatory disease or because of more iron deficiency. The prevalence of anaemia tended to fall with increasing parity, being 52% in primigravidae and 40% in grande-multigravidae; this was probably due to greater risk of malaria-induced anaemia in primigravidae. In contrast, prevalence of iron deficiency increased with parity, being 18 and 35%, respectively, in primigravidae and grande-multigravidae. Anaemia and iron deficiency were seen most frequently in the third trimester. Pregnant women in the north of Nigeria require iron supplements irrespective of socioeconomic status or maternal parity. |
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