Một số yếu tố liên quan đến thiếu máu dinh dưỡng ở phụ nữ có thai huyện Củ Chi (thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), năm 2011

The study was conducted on 1,896 pregnant women in 6 communes of Cu Chi district. Test results showed that the rate of anemia in pregnant women in the first 3 months of pregnancy was 21.6 percent, with no differences between the communes. 96.3 percent of anemia subjects had low Ferritin levels in blood. Some factors associated with anemia rate in the first 3 months of pregnancy is the age and their number of children born of mothers. Women 35 and older are at risk for anemia greater:than 6.52 times that of women under 35 years of age. The risk of anemia among women born 3 or more times greater than 4.25 times that of women born 1-2 times.