Research Article
Prevalence and Predictors of Maternal Anemia during Pregnancy in Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia: An Institutional Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 4
Distribution of morphologic type anemia among study participants.
| | Morphologic type of cells | Anemic status | | Anemic |
Not anemic | Total | | (%) | (%) | (%) |
| | Microcytic hypochromic (MCV < 80 fl, MCH < 27 pg) | 8 (16%) | 1 (0.4%) | 9 (3.0%) | | Normocytic Normochromic (MCV and MCH within the normal value) | 38 (76%) | 235 (93.2%) | 273 (90.4%) | | Macrocytic normochromic (MCV > 100 fl, MCH (27 pg < MCH < 33.5 pg)) | 2 (4%) | 5 (1.98%) | 7 (2.3%) | | Other combinations | 2 (4%) | 11 (4.37%) | 13 (4.3%) |
| | Total | 50 (16.6%) | 252 (83.4%) | 302 (100%) |
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