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- Title
The presence of anemia in patients with leg ulcer: laboratory test.
- Authors
Baptista de Oliveira, Beatriz Guitton Renaud; de Abreu Castro, Joyce Beatriz; Novaes Silva Lisboa, Emilly Freire; Hye Chung Kang; Ferreira, Márcia de Assunção
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the presence of anemia in patients with chronic lower limb ulcers based on profile and hematometric indices. Method: This is a cross-sectional study carried out in a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro. The sample was composed of 64 participants with lower limb ulcers and evolution time greater than 12 weeks. Data was collected between May/2016 and December/2017 from hematological analyses, records from medical records, and wound assessment form. Results: 36 (56.2%) were male; 38 (59.4%) between 60 and 80 years old; 56 (87.5%) with chronic diseases and 52 (81.2%) with venous ulcers. 6 years mean of active ulceration. Anemia was detected in 36 (56.2%), 27 (75%) of which were normochromic and normocytic; 14 (38.8%) had deficiency anemia recorded in their medical chart. Conclusion: The low hemoglobin concentration is recurrent among the participants characterizing an anemia condition, whose profile reveals congruence to the anemia of chronic disease.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CLINICAL pathology; STATISTICS; ACADEMIC medical centers; ANALYSIS of variance; CHRONIC diseases; CROSS-sectional method; MANN Whitney U Test; T-test (Statistics); ANEMIA; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; LEG ulcers; ERYTHROCYTES; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis; NURSING assessment
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2022, Vol 75, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0064