The iron status of anaemic pregnant Igbo women in Nigeria.
The iron status of 120 anaemic pregnant Igbo women was investigated. Of the 120 patients whose haemoglobin was less than 10%, 30 (25%) had iron deficiency anaemia; 89 (74%) had megaloblastic anaemia (most probably due to folate deficiency), while 1 had Hb sickle cell disease. Malaria parasites were detected in only 7.5% of our patients, and seemed not to have a important factor in the causation of anaemia.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000740:Anemia / Q000097:blood*; D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000097:blood; D000749:Anemia, Megaloblastic / Q000097:blood; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000097:blood; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007501:Iron / Q000097:blood*; D008288:Malaria / Q000097:blood; D009549:Nigeria; D011247:Pregnancy; D011250:Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic / Q000097:blood*; D014168:Transferrin / Q000378:metabolism
D014168:Transferrin; D007501:Iron