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. 2016 May-Jun;32(3):630-4.
doi: 10.12669/pjms.323.9557.

Iron deficiency anaemia is still a major killer of pregnant women

Meharun-Nissa Khaskheli  1 , Shahla Baloch  2 , Aneela Sheeba  3 , Sarmad Baloch  4 , Fahad Khan Khaskheli  5
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Iron deficiency anaemia is still a major killer of pregnant women

Meharun-Nissa Khaskheli et al. Pak J Med Sci. 2016 May-Jun.

Abstract

Objective: To observe the effects of iron deficiency anaemia on the health and life of pregnant women.

Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit IV, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro from 1st June 2015 to 30(th) November 2015, for the period of 6 months. During this study period all the pregnant women from 13-40 weeks of pregnancy with iron deficiency anaemia having haemoglobin level less than 9 gram% were included, while the pregnant women with other medical disorders were excluded from the study. The data was collected and analyzed on SPSS version 21.

Result: Out of the 305 pregnant registered women with iron deficiency anaemia most women were young 170(55.73%) between 20-30 years, belonged to low socioeconomic group 254(83.27%), they were multiparous 104(34.09%), having very low haemoglobin level between 1-3 gram % in 54(17.70%) women and between 4-6gram% in162 (53.11%) women. These women were prone to high complications such as ante partum haemorrhage 49(16.06%), renal failure 48(15.73%), disseminated intravascular coagulation 54(17.70%) and 16(5.24%) women died.

Conclusion: Iron deficiency anaemia is common in pregnant women with higher rates of complications.

Keywords: High maternal morbidity; Mortality; Severe anaemia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interest This study was conducted in the Public Sector University having all the facilities for the institutional management protocol, there was no extra burden on the subjected population, there was no conflict of interest.

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Haemoglobin Level (Iron deficiency anaemia).
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