title: Anemia is prevalent in an urban, African-American adolescent population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the prevalence of anemia in urban indigent African-American adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional sample of hemoglobin values.
  
  
  METHODS
  School-based clinic and health fair in an inner-city, predominantly African-American public high school.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ninety-nine adolescents presenting for preparticipation athletic physical examinations between August and December 1990 and 76 adolescents participating in screening activities at a high school health fair on March 12, 1991.
  
  
  METHODS
  Finger-stick and venipuncture hemoglobin samples were obtained from presumably healthy adolescents. The percentage of anemic students was determined by means of a hemoglobin cutoff of less than 120 g/L, and with the exclusion of samples from pregnant students or those positive for sickle cell trait or disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hemoglobin values in 169 students.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean +/- SD hemoglobin level for girls was 115 +/- 15 g/L; 50% of the girls had hemoglobin levels less than 120 g/L. The mean hemoglobin level for boys was 129 +/- 13 g/L; 16.5% of boys had hemoglobin levels less than 120 g/L.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anemia may be a common condition in inner-city African-American adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Family Practice Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Leshan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gottlieb
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mark
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American; D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D044383:Black People; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006277:Health Fairs; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D011204:Poverty Areas; D015995:Prevalence; D012016:Reference Values; D012572:School Health Services; D014922:Wisconsin / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins