- CODEN : IAJPBB
- issn 2349-7750
TITLE:
ASSOCIATION OF ANEMIA WITH OXIDIZED TEA DRINKING IN AFFLUENT PAKISTANI FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
AUTHORS:
Dr Kashif Hussain, Dr Tehseen Fatima, Dr.Saman
ABSTRACT:
Background- Around the world one of the major beverages is tea intaking. The impact of excessive tea intaking on human health is positive as well negative. In healthy women apparently there are many factors that worsening the anemic condition and anemic. This study is about to observe the relation between tea intaking and anemia and its comparison with the cut-off values set by the World Health Organization. Methods- It is a case control and cross-sectional study conducted in King Edward Medical University lahore. In single or unmarried girls lies within the age group of 17-25 years old a questionnaire was distributing for conducting survey after their consent. Any girl who was suffering in any kind of disease related to vitamins, mineral, medication was excluded. For haematological indices and complete blood count their blood samples were collected and examined thoroughly. Anthropometric indicators were also analyzed during this study. For data analyzation SPSS-21 was used. Tabulation of results was done as Mean ±SD and data was compared. Results- In this study it was found that red blood cells and Hemoglobin in regular tea drinkers is less than the non-tea drinker that is (10.84±1.34 g/dl 4.09±0.32 million/mm3) and the normal non-tea drinkers this is (11.08±0.88 g/dl, 4.11±0.36 million/mm3) and the overall anemia prevalence is 80.7%. In non-tea drinkers the mean corpuscular volume MCV is (82.63±7.91 μm3) whereas in tea drinkers MCV is much lower that is (78.87±7.10 μm3). However, there was no significant relation found between anthropometric and WBCs with tea intaking. Conclusion- In our region due to tea drinking anemia is prevailing in girls or worsening of anemic condition is associated with tea intaking. Keywords: Non tea drinkers, Tea drinkers, Anthropometric indices, Anemia,
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