Research Article
A Comparison of Capillary and Venous Blood Haematocrits of Pregnant Women in Nigeria: The Impact on Diagnosis and Prevalence of Anaemia in Pregnancy
Table 1
Distribution of participants’ characteristics.
| Maternal characteristic
() | Subcategory | Frequency
(%) |
| | Age groups (years) | 16–20 | 5 (2.5) | | 21–25 | 33 (16.5) | | 26–30 | 65 (32.5) | | 31–35 | 76 (38.0) | | 36–40 | 12 (6.0) | | 41–45 | 9 (4.5) |
| | Tribe | Igbo | 191 (95.5) | | Yoruba | 2 (1.0) | | Hausa | 0 (0.0) | | Others | 7 (3.5) |
| | Gestational age groups (weeks) | <28 | 82 (41.0) | | ≥28 | 118 (59.0) |
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