Anaemia Prevalence More Than Doubles in an Academic Year in a Cohort of Tertiary Students: A Repeated-Measure Study in Cape Coast, Ghana

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The trend of the measured parameters during one academic year. (a) The trend of haemoglobin concentration. (b) The trend of the change in platelet count. (c) The pattern of the change in MCHC of participants. (d) The prevalence of anaemia among the participants of the study at each time point. (e) The gender-wise distribution of anaemia prevalence (Semester 1A, early part of first semester; Semester 1B, latter part of first semester; Semester 2A, early part of second semester; Semester 2B, latter part of second semester (Kruskal–Wallis with Dunn’s multiple comparison test was performed)). HB: haemoglobin, MCHC: mean cell haemoglobin concentration; PLT: platelet, and BMI: body mass index.

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