To Study the Prevalence of Obesity among Anemic Women and Associated Factors

Prevalence of Obesity among Anemic Women and Associated Factors

Abstract

Background: Iron deficiency and anemia are frequent findings in subjects with progressed stages of obesity. Iron deficiency and anemia may impair mitochondrial and cellular energy homeostasis and further increase inactivity and fatigue of obese subjects. Obesity-associated inflammation is tightly linked to iron deficiency and involves impaired duodenal iron absorption associated with low expression of duodenal ferroportin (FPN) along with elevated hepcidin concentrations. The main objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of Obesity among Anemic women. Subjects and Methods: The hospital based study was conducted in Government Medical College; Khandwa for a period of one year from 2018 Dec to 2020 Feb. The study population was the females who attended OPD and IPD of general medicine department of government medical college, Khandwa. The number of participants included in this study was two hundred twenty-three (323). The participants were selected randomly from the general medicine department. Data Analysis was done using SPSS software program. Verbal informed consent was obtained from study participants prior to the commencement of the study. Results: Among 323 cases, 104 cases are with high BMI value (25.0 and above) with percentage of 32.2%, 180 cases are with normal BMI value (18.5 24.9) with 56% percentage and 39 cases are of underweight (18.5 and lower) with percentage of 12%, and p value is > 0.05 in all the categories, which is insignificant. Conclusion: There appears no association between BMI and levels of anemia in female patients, any correlation if exists appears to by chance. As both iron deficiency and overload may have detrimental effects on the course of obesity-related conditions, appropriate screening and treatment of both is necessary and maintaining of adequate quality of diet is also important factor to reduce the burden.