Prevalence and Pattern of Anaemias in Children at ASCOMS & Hospital Jammu

Key Words Iron Deficiency Anaemia, Megaloblastic Anaemia, Dimorphic Anaemia, Haemolytic Anaemias Introduction Anaemias of different types are known to cause impaired growth, developmental delay, behavioural abnormalities and also lead to cognitive dysfunction and school performance (1). Material and Methods The present study is based on blood samples of 303 children below the age of 15 years, who attended as out patients, in Department of Paediatrics and affiliated urban centre of Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences. Most cases of microcytic hypochromic anaemia on PBF, showed low serum Iron, increased TIBC and decreased transferrin saturation, indicating Iron deficiency anaemia. Prevalence of anaemia in male children was observed to be comparatively less 44.94% against female children which showed 55.06% of anaemia.Iron deficiency anaemia was observed to be the most common type of anaemia 57.6% followed by megaloblastic anaemia 21.5% and dimorphic anaemia 10.1%( Fig 1-3).The other types of anaemias, haemolytic anaemia, anaemia of chronic disease and aplastic anaemia were low i.e. 5.6%, 2.5% and 1.2% respectively.