Assuntos
Anemia Hipocrômica/epidemiologia , Complicações Hematológicas na Gravidez/epidemiologia , Anemia Hipocrômica/etiologia , Células Sanguíneas/análise , Análise Química do Sangue , Dieta , Feminino , Hemoglobinas/análise , Humanos , Gravidez , Complicações Hematológicas na Gravidez/etiologia , Trinidad e Tobago , Vitamina B 12/sangueAssuntos
Humanos , Gravidez , Feminino , Anemia Hipocrômica/epidemiologia , Complicações Hematológicas na Gravidez/epidemiologia , Anemia Hipocrômica/etiologia , Células Sanguíneas/análise , Análise Química do Sangue , Dieta , Hemoglobinas/análise , Complicações Hematológicas na Gravidez/etiologia , Trinidad e Tobago , Vitamina B 12/sangueRESUMO
At the Trinidad Nutrition Centre hemoglobin levels were determined in 555 pregnant women and a third of these were found to be less than 10 gm percent. Serum iron levels were diminished and total iron binding capacity increased wile the present saturation of TIBC was decreased in this anemic group. Serum folic acid levels were low but serum Vit. B12 levels normal. Average total protein intake was 56 gm (49 percent of animal and 51 percent of vegetable sources), representing a deficit of 26.8 percent in total protein intake. Average iron intake was 10.3 mg (20 percent of animal and 80 percent of vegetable sources), representing a 31.3 percent deficiency. In 84 percent of the patients anemia was of the hypochromic microcytic type. The authors intend to investigate further whether the high proportion of iron intake from vegetable sources plays any part in the production of anemia (AU)