Frequency of Anaemia in Patients in Akhtar Saeed Trust Hospital

Abstract

To determine the incidence of anaemia in all the patients who visited the outpatient department and were admitted in wards in Akhtar Saeed Trust Hospital (ASTH) in Lahore, Pakistan and find the frequency of different grades of anemia in male and female patients. Methodology: This is a retrospective study conducted in Department of Pathology, ASTH, Lahore. A total of 10,025 (Ten thousand and twenty five) CBC reports were studied intricately which were carried out in the laboratory from October 2015 to August 2016. According to the principle of simple random sampling, individuals from a data of a total of 3289 men and 6736 women were chosen. Haemoglobin less than 13gram/dL in men and 12 gram/dL in women was considered as anaemic. Results: Out of total of 10,025 patients, 38.8% (n =3830)had normal haemoglobin levels and 61.7% (n=6195) were anaemic. There were total of 3289 males and 6736 females. Among those 3289 males, 1447(44%) were normal and 1842(56%) were anaemic. In females, among a total of 6736,2383 (35%) were normal and 4353(65%) were anaemic. Mean haemoglobin level was 11.36+2.2214g/dL in females and 12.22+2.5321 g/dL in males. Mild anemia was found to be more common in both male and female patients. Moderate anaemia was more common in females (18.02%) than males (12.56%).Severe anaemia is almost the same in male (6.6%) and female (6.3%) patients. Conclusion: Frequency of anaemia was high in patients presenting to the indoor and outdoor patient department in Akhtar Saeed Trust Teaching Hospital Lahore .The frequency of anaemia was higher in female patients as compared to the male patients. Even after excluding the two high risk groups, i.e., pregnant females and infants from the data, high frequency rate of anaemia is alarming.