Research Article
Assessment of Hemoglobin Variants in Patients Receiving Health Care at the Ho Teaching Hospital: A Three-Year Retrospective Study
Table 1
Participants’ demographic details stratified by year of testing.
| | Parameters | Total | Year category | value | | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| | Gender | 1523 (100.00) | 430 (28.23) | 507 (33.29) | 586 (38.48) | | | Male | 493 (32.37) | 138 (27.99) | 157 (31.85) | 198 (40.16) | 0.604 | | Female | 1030 (67.63) | 292 (28.35) | 350 (33.98) | 388 (37.67) | |
| | Age group | | | | | | | <5 | 237 (15.56) | 87 (36.71) | 67 (28.27) | 83 (35.02) | 0.013 | | 5–14 | 258 (16.94) | 80 (31.01) | 90 (34.88) | 88 (34.11) | | | 15–24 | 344 (22.59) | 84 (24.42) | 115 (33.43) | 145 (42.15) | | | 25–34 | 459 (30.14) | 122 (26.58) | 151 (32.90) | 186 (40.52) | | | 35–60 | 193 (12.67) | 46 (23.83) | 77 (39.90) | 70 (36.27) | | | ≥61 | 32 (2.10) | 11 (34.38) | 7 (21.88) | 14 (43.75) | |
| | Hb variants | | | | | | | AA | 568 (37.29) | 157 (27.64) | 194 (34.15) | 217 (38.20) | 0.005 | | AC | 79 (5.19) | 17 (21.52) | 25 (31.65) | 37 (46.84) | | | AS | 614 (40.32) | 175 (28.50) | 203 (33.06) | 236 (38.44) | | | AF | 3 (0.20) | 0 (0.00) | 2 (66.67) | 1 (33.33) | | | CC | 4 (0.26) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (25.00) | 3 (75.00) | | | SC | 121 (7.94) | 32 (26.45) | 48 (39.67) | 41 (33.88) | | | SF | 39 (2.56) | 19 (48.72) | 18 (46.15) | 2 (5.13) | | | SS | 95 (6.24) | 30 (31.58) | 16 (16.84) | 49 (51.58) | |
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Data are presented as frequency with corresponding percentages in parenthesis. value is significant at <0.05. |
