Racial variations in booking haemoglobin of primigravidae in Malaysia: a prospective study

BMC Research Notes

Foong Ming Moy¹  Ai Chen Chua²  Eugene Weng Kong Leong²  Albert Chao Chiet Tan² 

[1] Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

关键词: Anaemia;    Race;    Pregnancy;    Primigravida;    Haemoglobin;   

Others  :  1142811
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-6-173

 received in 2012-04-05, accepted in 2012-10-23,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Variations in racial haemoglobin had been previously described in multiple studies locally and abroad. This study was conducted to quantify the differences in haemoglobin of booking primigravidae amongst the three major races in Malaysia at the antenatal clinic of University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur.

Findings

One year prospective study of booking full blood count sample of primigravidae taken in one centre was conducted. Multiple comparative analyses of the booking haemoglobin were performed using the One-way ANOVA comparative mean test in each trimester. 622 primigravidae without any known history of haematological disorders were recruited into the study. The mean haemoglobin for the Indian race was the lowest compared to the two other races in the second and the third trimesters, and it was found to be statistically significant lower (p- value 0.001) than the Malay race in the second trimester. It was also found that the Indian race had a significantly higher incidence of moderate to severe anaemia (p- value: 0.029). The prevalence of anaemia in our study population is also significantly higher in the Indian population (p- value: 0.01).

Conclusions

The findings from this study have established that there is racial preponderance to anaemia in pregnancy. The Indian race is at a higher risk of having anaemia in pregnancy particularly in the second trimester.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Tan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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