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

Table 1

The demographic characteristics of the participants.

Characteristic		N (%)
Age (years)	16–20	30 (25.6)
	21–25	81 (69.2)
	26–30	4 (3.4)
	31–35	2 (1.7)
Sex	Female	46 (39.3)
	Male	71 (60.7)
Marital status	Married	4 (3.4)
	Single	113 (96.6)
Qualitative G6PD status	Normal	90 (76.9)
	Partial defect	4 (3.4)
	Full defect	23 (19.7)
Haemoglobin types	A	71 (84.5)
	AC	3 (3.6)
	AS	8 (9.5)
	AS/AD	1 (1.2)
	SC	1 (1.2)
ABO blood type	A	25 (21.4)
	B	20 (17.1)
	AB	4 (3.4)
	O	68 (58.1)
Rh D type	D positive	106 (90.6)
	D negative	11 (9.4)

G6PD: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; Rh: rhesus; and one sample tested negative for sickling slide test but showed a band at the S region on cellulose acetate electrophoresis.