Open AccessPrevalence of Sickle Cell Anemic Subjects from Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra, India
Author(s) -
S. R. Kohchale
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal for research in applied science and engineering technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-9653
DOI - 10.22214/ijraset.2021.39545
Subject(s) - sickle cell trait , medicine , anemia , disease , sickle cell anemia , case fatality rate , pediatrics , hemoglobin , environmental health , population
Sickle cell disease is caused by Mutations in the HBB gene. Hemoglobin consists of four protein subunits, typically, two subunits called alpha-globin and two subunits called beta-globin. People with sickle cell anemia suffers with high morbidity and with many intercurrent infections, people of study district are with high economic burden, terminate fatality in childhood state and have the emotional and psychological trauma including the family members the exact magnitude of the problem in the study district is still obscure. The study conducted from April 2009 to April 2012 to know the prevalence of sickle cell anemia by month long survey and by visiting all PHC’S and RH of district and data collected to know the prevalence of sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease total 7763 cases were recorded in present study and age wise, gender wise and caste wise distribution recorded and the data was analyzed statistically. Keywords: Sickle, anemia, Gadchiroli, Haemoglobin, beta-globin