Sahibzada Syed Masoodus Syed, Muhammad Saeed Razi, Saleh Muhammad, Sohail Amjad, Ahmed Affifi.
Frequency of Anemia in Pediatric out patient department
Pak Paed J Mar 2004;28(1):35-6.
District Headquarter Hospital, Sialkot
Objective: To study the prevalence of anemia among children attending a paediatric outpatient department (OPD) in a District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ). Method: All infants and children between the ages of 1-month to 12-years were included to analyze their hemoglobin concentration. Result and discussion: In our study 32 children (44.44% of total) had hemoglobin of less than 10 gram percent. None of the children between the ages of 1-6 months and 6-12 years fall under the 7-gram percent level. Six children, 8.3% had severe anemia - hemoglobin less than 7 G%.
Category: Haematology
Keywords: Hemoglobin. Anemia.
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Its a large proportion of Paediatric population with anaemia,Was there any further investigation done on these children to find cause of Anaemia?
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