RESUMO

A survey of various occupational groups employed on a sugar estate in Trinidad was carried out in order to determine the prevalence of anaemia in the working population. A random sample of 251 employees was studied. The degree of iron deficiency anaemia was minimal, except in the female East Indian cultivation worker whose mean haemoglobin level was 11.4G percent This group showed a prevalence of hookworm infestation of 68.4 percent. The overall prevalence of hookworm infestation was 56.2 percent. The multifactorial aetiology of the anaemia is discussed and detailed studies in a group of 14 whose haemoglobin level was less than 10.5G percent are described (AU)

Assuntos

Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Anemia Ferropriva/etiologia , Infecções por Uncinaria , Trinidad e Tobago/epidemiologia