Estimation of Some Blood Parameters in Anemic Children Patients

Abstract

Across sectional study was conducted for a sample of 45 anemic children and 15 healthy children (control group) in five primary health care centers in Hawija district in Kirkuk governorate. All children were between 6-60 months old. The study started from April 1 to August 31, 2021. Anemia was diagnosed by ferritin, Hb, RBCs, PCV, and WBCs tests. The role of gender and age in anemia was studied, and the results were as follows: The group of patient's children showed a deterioration in the levels of the studied hematological variables, whose values reached 10.977 ng/ml, 10.287 g/dl for ferritin and hemoglobin, and for the effect of patients’ gender, it was found that males were more affected by anemia, as they recorded poor averages in both study groups, reaching Their averages in the patient group were 9.104 ng/ml, 10.09 g/dl for Ferritin, Hb Respectively, as for the age of patients, it was found that children under three of age were more affected by anemia, as they recorded the lowest averages of the studied variables, which amounted to 10.09 ng/ml and 9.67 g/dl for the category of those under three years of age for Ferritin and Hb on respectively within the patient group, and 116.9 ng/ml, 13.95 g/dl for Ferritin and Hb for the least healthy group of children of three years.