Although anemia is a significant global health issue, it is not associated with high mortality or morbidity. True or false?
Some recent publications on anemia and mortality:
1. Article The differential effects of anemia on mortality in young and...
2. Article Maternal and Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Associated Wi...
3. Article Adherence to clinical guidelines is associated with reduced ...
4. Article Anemia, Iron Deficiency, and Iron Supplementation in Relatio...
Mayada K. Mohammed False - Anaemia maynot be the direct cause of mortality, but it is a significant indirect cause of mortality and major cause of morbidity.
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Ask any obstetrician and you will know that anemia is the major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality, though if you look at percentage of pregnant women out of total nutritional anemia in the population; both males and females, the problem does not look apparantly very significant in the whole third world population. In case of mild nutritional anemias, there is partial compensation by increase in 2:3 DPG and other tissue adaptations, known and unknown, these subjects do not complain of thr symptoms, but if you treat these population with either flour or salt fortification, and assess their subjective feeling, there will be significant improvement in physical and mental performance, indirectly showing morbidity producing resposible for the ecomomic ipact at national level. Anemia is not a single disesase, but manifestation of large number of diseases. What I have referred to is merely nitritional anemias. This is why at national and international level various community based programmes being planned and executed
Anaemia affects a third of the world’s population and contributes to increased morbidity and mortality.
Article Anemia epidemiology, pathophysiology, and etiology in low‐ a...
The morbidity and mortality depend greatly on the underlying etiology of the patient's anemia as well as the stage of the disease.
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