A cross sectional study to evaluate prevalence of different grades of Anaemia in hospitalized elderly.

Dr Soniya Dattatray Phartale; Dr Nikhil Sudhakar Varge

Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2016

A cross sectional study to evaluate prevalence of different grades of Anaemia in hospitalized elderly.

Dr Soniya Dattatray Phartale, Dr Nikhil Sudhakar Varge

Abstract :

The world population is ageing. Thus with increase of life span Geriatric Medicine is now getting more attention. Age is also associated with compromised hematopoietic reserve and consequently with increase susceptibility to anemia in the presence of an underlying disorder.Total of 120 patients admitted to ward were part of the study. The anemic patients were identiåed based on Complete blood counts reading of the hemoglobin value and classiåed according to anemia workup proåle. Results and Interpretation: Out of total 120 patients, 36 (30%) patients were found anemic, with 20 (30.7%) males and 16 (29.09%) females. The age & sex distribution along with different grades of anemia was analyzed for results. An important ånding presented in our study is that anemia in old age appears to be highly prevalent in both males and females. The åndings of the present study showed, that mild anemia is common and also severe anemia is frequently common in the hospitalized elderly