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Haemoglobinopathies - major associating determinants in prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girl students of Assam, India
- Source :
- WHO South-East Asia journal of public health. 1(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- a Prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girl students of Assam, a north-eastern state of India, was evaluated along with its associating determinants. The present study revealed that anaemia is a major public health problem among adolescent girl students of Assam. The overall prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girl students of Assam is as high as 71.5%. Non-nutritional factors such as infection due to helminths was substantially low (24.71%). Ascaris lumbricoides was the most frequent infection (10.6%), followed by Trichuris trichiura (6.2%), and hookworm infestations (3.9%). Polyparasitic infection (A. lumbricoides, T. trichiura and hookworm) was observed in 0.5% of the study subjects. While coinfection due to A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura was 2.3%, A. lumbricoides and hookworm was 1.1% and T. trichiura and hookworm was 0.9%. Serum ferritin level in a subgroup of samples was in the lower normal range. Malaria parasite was not detected in any of the slides. We have observed a gene frequency of 0.188 for β E -globin gene among the adolescent girl students of Assam. The gene frequency for β E -globin gene ranged from 0.071 to 0.266. Statistically significant difference (F=3.471; P=0.001) of mean haemoglobin level was observed in different types of haemoglobin variants. Multiple regression analysis, in a sub- set of samples having information on Hb levels (g/dl), helminthic infestation (A. lumbricoides, T. trichuria and hookworm), haemoglobin type, revealed haemoglobin type (Hb E) was the important determinant of anaemia among adolescent girl students in the present study.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
biology
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
Public health
education
Significant difference
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
parasitic diseases
Immunology
medicine
Coinfection
Helminths
Trichuris trichiura
Girl
Ascaris lumbricoides
business
Malaria
media_common
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23045272
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- WHO South-East Asia journal of public health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3cf44a8eb30b7ee3a6c46a7ae3150a3f