Iron Deficiency Anemia in HIV-Positive Women

Assignment Title An Assignment Submitted by Name of Student Name of Establishment Class XXXX, Section XXXX, Fall 2012

Iron Deficiency Anemia in HIV-Positive Women

Iron Deficiency Anemia in HIV-Positive Women The Research Question is about women, who lived in Greater Vancouver Area and had the iron deficiency anemia and with positive immunodeficiency virus. They were tested by association between medical, social and nutritional factor. Also, people without immunodeficiency virus took a part in this research. The information was collected including different factors such as dietary intake, nutrition-related factors. The medical information and all necessary data about patient were obtained from the medical chart. They should be under 19 years, confirmed HIV-positive status, CD4 cell count of at least 200. It should be only women. They must not be pregnant. Blood loss often associated with inflammation, bone marrow suppression, and disruption of intestinal epithelial cell replication often causes the anemia.102 participants took part in the research. 60% of people were from Oak Tree Clinic, there were 25% of patients from Vancouver Native Health Clinic, 11% were recruited from the local Downtown Community Health and only 4% were from St. Pauls Hospital. The ethnic groups were different types. There were plenty of Caucasian patients (53%), also by Aboriginal origin (30%) and a few patients from Africa and South Asia. Special statistical software program is often use in such researches. The name of the program is S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer for Windows (Insightful Corporation, Seattle, WA, 2007). The sample was divided in two groups. There were people with iron deficiency anemia in the first group and people were without anemia in the second group Instead of the traditional one-month research, it was over the preceding seven days. According to the survey results, the ferritin levels were available for 42 participants, but the haemoglobin levels were available for all patients. The prevalence of anemia was

Iron Deficiency Anemia in HIV-Positive Women

30%, the prevalence of iron deficiency was 40% and finally, the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia was 16%. 52% of these participants had the ferritin levels below 30 g /L. In comparison with women who had not got iron deficiency anemia, women with iron deficiency had lower levels of haemoglobin. BMI factor was also very important. Good BMI had only 22% of the participants. According to the survey, it is clear that African, Aboriginal women were predominantly with iron deficiency. No infections were found in 75% of the participants used antiretroviral therapy. 57% of the patients took multivitamin, 16 patients were with iron deficiency anemia. 28% of them took iron supplements. 62 patients also took food supplements and took the assistance dietary program during one month. The highest result with this program was showed by the Aboriginal women. There were any important associations between dietary iron intake and iron status. If there were more participants, the results would be more accurate. However, the sample size was too small to draw definitive conclusions. During the research, it was found that women with HIV incur a risk for iron deficiency anemia. If they want to prevent iron deficiently anemia, they should take screening every three months, use multivitamins supplements including iron and hold on supportive nutrition program. The data justify these conclusions. Iron deficiency anemia in HIV-positive women is very complicated. It has multifactorial and complicated causation. Because of health disparities, African and Aboriginal women have more risks to an iron deficiency anemia (Semba R., Shah N., Strathdee S., Vlahov D., 2002). The article says that you should not ignore your nutrition problems and you should always go to the dietitian. This article can help dietitians to raise awareness about iron deficiency anemia in those with HIV.

Iron Deficiency Anemia in HIV-Positive Women

References Semba RD, Shah N, Strathdee SA, Vlahov D. (2002). High prevalence of iron deficiency and anemia among female injection drug users with and without HIV infection. JAIDS.