Prevalence and Severity of Anaemia Among Pregnant Women Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study

There is scant empirical research on the expression of requests for euthanasia when Background: Anaemia during pregnancy is an important maternal health concern associated with nutritional deficiencies and potentially adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. Determining its prevalence, severity and associated factors is important for improving antenatal care.
Objective: To assess the occurrence and severity of anaemia among pregnant women attending a tertiary care hospital and to investigate associated risk factors, where data are available.
Materials and Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at [Name of Hospital] between January 2021 and January 2022. The study included 89 pregnant women recorded as having anaemia. The available summary data included the number of participants in each anaemia severity category and limited demographic and obstetric information. Descriptive statistical methods were used to summarise the available observations. Further assessment of risk factors requires the underlying patient-level data and clearly defined comparison groups.
Results: All 89 participants were recorded as anaemic. Mild anaemia was reported in 15 participants (16.9%), moderate anaemia in 30 (33.7%) and severe anaemia in 44 (49.4%). Severe anaemia was the largest reported category, accounting for nearly half of the study sample. The supplied summary did not provide sufficient detail to calculate associations between anaemia and individual demographic, obstetric or nutritional risk factors.
Conclusion: Severe anaemia constituted the largest category among the 89 participants recorded as anaemic. These findings highlight the importance of antenatal haemoglobin assessment and appropriate clinical management. However, the prevalence of anaemia among all pregnant women attending the hospital and the independent risk factors cannot be established without additional information about the sampling process, total number screened and individual patient characteristics.