Research Article

Frequency of Anemia in the Patients of a Family Health Team in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Table 5

Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration (MCHC) values according to age range, Dourados, MS, 2009.

MCHC values (%)Younger than 1 year oldFrom 1 to 15 years oldOlder than 15 years old
N    %N    %N     %

26–27.9 —   — 1   1.1 1    0.3
28–29.9 —   — —   — 2    0.6
30–31.9 3   23.1 7   7.4 9    2.5
32–33.9 9   69.2 79   83.2 324    91.5
34–35.9 1   7.7 8   8.4 17    4.8
36–37.9 —   — —   — 1    0.3

Total 13   100 95   100 354    100