Frequency of Anemia in the Patients of a Family Health Team in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil | Zendy

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Frequency of Anemia in the Patients of a Family Health Team in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Author(s) -

Tatiana Lachi,

Cássia Barbosa Reis

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

anemia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.921

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 2090-1275

pISSN - 2090-1267

DOI - 10.1155/2011/836184

Subject(s) - medicine , anemia , population , family health , demography , environmental health , pediatrics , nursing , sociology

Anemia is a clinical manifestation with high prevalence in the world, reaching about 30% of the total inhabitants of the planet. It is responsible for a great reduction in quality of life of affected people. The present paper aimed to obtain the frequency of anemia in the blood counts of a sample from the population of registered patients of a Family Health Team in Dourados, MS, Brazil. 462 patients, who had blood counts done from February 2008 to March 2009, were included in this research. The frequency of anemia was 22.7% in the studied population, including all age groups.

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