Determinants and Pattern of Anaemia in Pregnancy at Booking in Federal Medical Centre Owerri, South-East, Nigeria

Abstract

This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Authors OMO, BUE and EAN were involved in the design and writing of the protocol and the first draft. Authors BCO and OAO were involved in the statistical analysis. Author NUB was involved in laboratory analysis of the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Determinants of anemia among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Horo Guduru Wollega Zone, West Ethiopia: Unmatched case-control study

“…Consistent with previous studies conducted in different regions of the world; Kenya [31], India [35] and Nigeria [36], and other parts of Ethiopia [10, 23, 29,37], intestinal helminthic infection was one strong driving factor of anemia during pregnancy in the current study. Ascaris Lumbricoides and Hookworms were the predominant intestinal helminths infections among pregnant women in the current study.…”

“…Anemic pregnant women who had heavy menstrual bleeding were almost twice of their counterparts in this study. This finding is in agreement with a study conducted at the Federal Medical Center Owemi, Nigeria [29], Otona Hospital, Wolayita Soddo town and Buta Jira hospital, Ethiopia [10, 26]. Excess blood flow leads to iron storage depletion and causes iron deficiency anemia which commonly occurs in pregnant women with short interbirth intervals.…”