IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA FREQUENCY IN RURAL AREA OF DISTRICT LAYYAH. A DETAILED STUDY OF LESS IRON VALUES IN PATIENTS

Background: Anemia is the state or condition in which the volume of blood to take oxygen is less than the capacity required. This retrospective study was conducted to analyzed the immensity of Deficiency of Iron Anemia in THQ Hospital Chowk Azam Layyah, during from Feb 2017 to January 2018 to evaluate the prevalence different stages of anemic patients in this area. Aim: Objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of different anemic grades in patients to give better treatment and to improve quality of life of patients. Methods: Two hundred patients were included in this study who met all the criteria needed to this study. In this study we examined blood tests, CBC reports of all patients in the laboratory. Moreover, including detailed patient's history, previous diseases, current diseases, anemia history in family, gynecological history of women were examined. Results: In all two hundred anemic patients, we found one hundred and seventy (85%) patients had deficiency of iron and 30 (15%) patients had inadequacy of non-iron (lack of other minerals) anemia. Most of the patients (58.8%) who had less volume of iron were aged of 21 to 32 Years. On basis of serum fertin level (SFL), We observed the intensity of deficiency of iron and classify into modest, mildest and acute groups. We found 120 (70.6%) patients had modest IDA (iron deficiency anemia), 20 (11.8%) patients had acute and rest (17.6%) had mildest deficiency of iron anemia. In 160 IDA patient's women were 95 (55.9%), 40 (23.5%) were men > 19 years and 35 (20.6%) were growing children had an aged < 14 years. Conclusion: In this study, we observed deficiency of iron is the most frequent cause in patients of anemia, especially in females.