Resumen de Anemia ferropriva e sua correlaçao com parasitos intestinais em uma população da área periurbana de Manaus
C. L. Motta de Oliveira, W. Antunes Ferreira, A. Da Mata, M. G. Vale Barbosa
ANEMIA OF IRON DEFICIENCY AND YOUR CORRELATION WITH INTESTINAL PARASITES IN A POPULATION OF THE AREA NEAR URBAN OF MANAUS According to the WHO more than two billion people are infected with some worm type or parasite. Is considered that 60% of those infections can be responsible for defi ciencies nutrition�s, mainly lack of iron and of vitamins. With the objective of associating the prevalence of Iron anaemia defi ciency with the occurrence of intestinal parasites, in a population of the urban area, they were accomplished collection of blood for evaluation of Iron defi ciency Anaemia and exam feces to detect the intestinal parasites in patients of the spontaneous demand of a tertiary unit of health in Manaus. 400 samples were analyzed, in 271 (67,75%) intestinal parasites were detected, being 197 (49,25%) for protozoa and 148 (37%) for helminths. In the blood count of 83 (20.75%) samples, Hematocrit was below 35%, in 131 (32,75%), the Hemoglobin was below 12%. In relation of Transferrin assay, 76 (19,3%) to the samples were with values above 360 µg/dL, 14 (3,5%) they were with values of the concentration of the Iron below 40% and 14 (3,5%) with the values of smaller Ferritin than 12%., 14 (3,5%) they were with values of the concentration of the Iron bass of 40% and 14 (3,5%) with the values of smaller Ferritin than 12%.
