Title: Prevalence of Anemia in Pregnancy
Authors: Anu Bala Chandel, Rohit Dogra
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v8i6.72
Abstract
Background: Anemia among pregnant women is a serious global health concern. According to WHO report, about 32.4 million pregnant women suffer from anemia worldwide, of which 0.8 million women are severely anemic. The aim of the present study is to find out the prevalence of anemia in antenatal women.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the department of obstetrics and gynecology of civil hospital Jaisinghpur, Kangra, HP, India for a period of three months between January 2020 to March 2020. A total 299 pregnant women coming to our antenatal OPD were screened for anemia.
Results: Maximum number of anemic patients are seen in age group of 25-29 years (42.45%) and least in age group <20 years (3.60%). Of all the anemic antenatal women 12.23% were illiterate, primary and secondary educated 28.78% and 28.85% respectively and 20.14% were graduate and above. Maximum percentage of anemia was seen in the lower socio-economic status (46.76%) followed by middle (35.25%) and was lowest in the higher socio-economic status group (17.99%)
Conclusion: Distributing iron tablets, healthy dietary habits, spacing among children and educating women are some of the modalities which can decrease the incidence of anemia.
