The relationship between gestation and iron deficiency anemia in women applied to obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinic

Objectives: Iron deficiency anemia that is very fundamentalfor all stage of life can especially affect health ofchildbearing aged women and even can cause death ofmothers and their babies. This study aimed to investigatethe relationship between iron deficiency anemia and gestationalcondition (gravidity, parity, abortion, number ofalive) of women applied to outpatient clinic of obstetric.Materials and methods: Between November-December2011, totally 61 patients who applied to Gynecology andObstetrics Outpatient clinic were retrospectively investigated.The patients’ data including; age, gestational medicalhistory (gravidity, parity, number of alive and abortion),hematocrit, hemoglobin, iron, serum iron binding capacity,and transferrin saturation values were evaluated.Results: Anemia was found in only 12 of the patients(19.7%). The anemia frequency in patients whose gravidity≤3 was 18.2%, whose gravidity >3 was 21.4%. Anemiaratio for patients having parity ≤2 was 16.6%, >2 was21.6%. For patients having abortion ≤2 anemia frequencywas 13.3% but it was 21.7% for patients having >2. Wefound that there was a negative correlation between thegroups (gravidity, parity, abortion) and hemoglobin-transferrinsaturation (p<0.05).Conclusions: In our study, it was shown that the frequencyof iron deficiency anemia increases with gravidity,parity, and number of alive. For this reason, gynecologicconsulting and iron support should be provided to preventanemia in childbearing aged women. J Clin Exp Invest2012; 3(1): 49-52