The dependence of hemoglobin and iron reserve indices on habitat conditions (sampling research in Osh Province, the Kirghiz SSR)
Turobbaev, M.V.; Osechinskiĭ, I.V.; Kubantseva, I.V.; Eremenko, L.L.; Chubarova, T.G.
Gematologiia i Transfuziologiia 34(11): 41-46
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0234-5730 PMID: 2533125 Document Number: 331398
Sampling investigation of female population (896 subjects) was conducted in five regions with opposite environmental conditions. A relatively low incidence of iron deficiency anemia and high incidence of exhausted iron reserves in the women living in the high mountains indicates the participation of the adaptive-compensatory mechanisms in the development of iron-deficiency. A high rate of iron deficiency incidence in the regions of intensive tobacco growing and association of iron-deficiency anemia in women engaged in tobacco growing with their occupation suggests a possible role of this factor in the development of iron-deficiency. The analysis of cumulative probability of hemoglobin level has evidenced manifest differences in standard borderlines of this parameter for women living in high mountains, middle mountains and in valleys.