Nabeel Rashid, Hassan Asghar, Taimoor Khan.
Estimation of the Haemoglobin Levels to assess the frequency of Iron deficiency Anaemia (IDA) amongst Female Students of Fatima Memorial Hospital Lahore.
Ophthalmol Update Jan ;16(1):564-5.

Background: Now a days, iron deficiency is very common health issue all over the world. Objective: to estimate the haemoglobin level and to assess the frequency of iron deficiency among female students. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in 200 female students was conducted through convenient sampling and data was collected from pathological laboratory reports consisting of haemoglobin level investigation performed for the survey record. Results. The result shows that 65%; female having average age of 20-26 were found to have iron deficiency. Haemoglobin level reveal that 75% females were anaemic and only 25% were non-anaemic. Conclusion: More than half of the girls were suffering from varying degree of anaemia and female of age 17-26 were mostly had iron deficiency.

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