Saba Firdos, Poornima Siddaraju, Balaji Pishey Ashwathnarayan Rao, Varne Smitha Ranoji Rao, Jayashree Krishnamurthy
Department of Pathology, Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India.
Department of Physiology, Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2014 Jan;3(1):48-53. doi: 10.4103/2249-4863.130275.
Due to the limited availability of data related to anemia in hospitalized children, this research was conducted to study the occurrence, morphological patterns, distribution in different age groups, sex, and severity of anemia among children aged 6 months-12 years.
Inpatients in department of pediatrics at a multispecialty hospital, Bangalore.
Descriptive cross sectional study from Oct, 2011 to Sep, 2012.
Ethical clearance was obtained from the ethical committee of the hospital as per 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. Unrestricted random sampling method was used to select the study group consisting of 882 children between the age of 6 months and 12 years. After obtaining the consent, data were obtained and statistically analyzed using statistical tools like mean, median, standard deviation, and Chi-square test.
Out of 882 children selected, 642 (72.79%) were anemic, out of which a majority of 629 (98%) children suffered from nonhemoglobinopathies and a meagre 13 (2%) suffered from hemoglobinopathies. Children in the age group of 6 months-1 year were most affected with nonhemoglobinopathies (33%). Moderate degree of anemia (hemoglobin = 7-9.9 g/dL) was the commonest grade of anemia (80%), while microcytic hypochromic anemia was commonest morphological type of anemia (48%). Among hemoglobinopathies, thalassemia major was the most common (69%, that is 9 out of 13 patients).
The occurrence of anemia among children aged between 6 months and 12 years is high and nonhemoglobinopathies predominate over the hemoglobinopathies.
由于住院儿童贫血相关数据有限，开展本研究以探讨6个月至12岁儿童贫血的发生率、形态学类型、在不同年龄组、性别中的分布情况以及贫血严重程度。
班加罗尔一家多专科医院儿科的住院患者。
2011年10月至2012年9月的描述性横断面研究。
根据1964年《赫尔辛基宣言》，获得了医院伦理委员会的伦理批准。采用无限制随机抽样方法选取了882名年龄在6个月至12岁之间的儿童作为研究组。获得同意后，获取数据并使用均值、中位数、标准差和卡方检验等统计工具进行统计分析。
在选取的882名儿童中，642名（72.79%）贫血，其中大多数629名（98%）儿童患有非血红蛋白病，仅有13名（2%）患有血红蛋白病。6个月至1岁年龄组的儿童受非血红蛋白病影响最大（33%）。中度贫血（血红蛋白=7-9.9g/dL）是最常见的贫血等级（80%），而小细胞低色素性贫血是最常见的贫血形态学类型（48%）。在血红蛋白病中，重型地中海贫血最为常见（69%，即13例患者中有9例）。
6个月至12岁儿童贫血发生率较高，非血红蛋白病比血红蛋白病更为常见。
