SCREENING OF THE SITUATION ABOUT THALASSSEMIA GEN- CARRYING AMONG FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS OF HANOI UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-2019

Thị Hương Giang Nguyễn1,, Thị Liên Hương Nguyễn1
1 Hanoi University of Pharmacy

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Objectives: This sudy aimed to describe some clinical and paraclinical characteristics and to describe iron deficiency anemia among first-year students of Hanoi University of Pharmacy (HUP) in the academic year 2018-2019. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study on 746 students was conducted at HUP. Results and conclusions: Of 746 students; 199 (26.7%) were male and 547 (73.3%) were female. Mean age of students was 18.00 ± 1.07. Prevalence of overall iron deficiency anemia was 13% (97 students), mainly mild anemia (93.8%) and mainly occurred in women (96.9%). The prevalence of microcytic, hypochromic anemia was 2.4% (18 students). There were 8 (44.4%) iron deficiency anemia students with low serum ferritin. The rate of suspicion of carrying thalassemia gene was 1,4%, of which the rate of carrying α-thalassemia gene and β- thalassemia gene were similar.

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