Iron deficiency anemia is generally much the common type of anemia and it is very prevalent particularly in women and infants. The principal causes of iron deficiency anemia are an inadequate dietary iron content, poor absorption of iron from the inte...
Iron deficiency anemia is generally much the common type of anemia and it is very prevalent particularly in women and infants. The principal causes of iron deficiency anemia are an inadequate dietary iron content, poor absorption of iron from the intestine and excessive losses iron from the body.
Loss of blood is really the only way in which significant amounts of iron can leave the body after absorption into the blood stream. Such loss may be through blood donations, abnormal hemorrhage resulting from casualities or illness, and in women through menstration.
Menstration results in an iron loss that is of such magnitude that care must be taken to provide a sufficient amount of the mineral in the diet for replacement. The extent of loss varies widely from person to person.
In a study of all of the data in the literature in 1949, Frenchman, R., et. al., found that almost one-half the women lost 0.5mg or less per day; 15 percent lost more than 1.2mg per day-an average spread over all days, not just for the menstrual period.
Many studies were reported, so far, concering the anemia of Korean infants and young children but the research on the anemia of women is very few. This study is planned to obtain informations concering the anemia in female factory workers of the age groups from 16 years to 23 years.
An investigation was conducted from March 1977 to April 1979 on 2,155 female factory workers in Korea.
The results were summarized as follows:
1. The mean hemoglobin value was 11.9±2.4 gm/dl
2. No significant age differences were observed in hemoglobin level in the each subjected groups.
3. It is found that 41.5% of subjected girls had Hb level of less than 12.0gm/dl.
4. The mean hematocritocrit value was 36.4±2.6% and 36.5% of subjects had hematocrit level less than 37.0%