A study on the prevalence of Anaemia among the hostel students of University of Science & Technology Meghalaya, India
Ankeeta Bhowmik, Syed Rizaul Karim Ahmed, Sudipta Nag and Kangkan Jyoti Sarma*
Department of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Science & Technology Meghalaya, Ribhoi – 793101 India *Corresponding Author: Kangkan Jyoti Sarma; Email: mailtoksarma@gmail.com Abstract
ABSTRACT
Anaemia is considered as one of the important global health issues and one of the common health problems among Indian adolescent girls or women. Anaemia is mainly found common among teenagers as they usually take unhealthy food or theyhave poor balanced diet. Several studies have shed light on prevalence of anaemia among various study subjects of different age groups from different study areas but however, information regarding the prevalence of anaemia among University students of age group of 18-25 among hostellers especially from Ri-bhoi District, Meghalaya are lacking. To understand this area and their prevalence, this cross-section study is conducted. 200 students of this age-group were selected for measuring Haemoglobin concentration using Digital Haemoglobin meter. In this study, we found that 84% were anaemic, among this, 91% were females and 77% were males. It is also seen 55.95% were found anaemic in 21-23 age group which the most affected age group. Students of blood group B+ are also mostly affected to anaemic. It also been observed that the non-anaemia cases are quite high those who maintain a proper diet plan and follow healthy life style habits. This study revealed that anaemia can be prevented if one individual follows a healthy life style along with a balanced diet plan. Cases of anaemia is rising just because lack of awareness and unhealthy dietary habits among students specially women and girls.