A study on prevalence of anemia in school going Yanadi tribal children of Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Q4 Medicine
Sarvepalli Vijaya Kumar, Skandha S. Harshita
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Owing to the living condition, tribal community is at higher risk for diet-associated health disorders. The indigenous tribal populations like “The Yanadi”, residing in state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Being in the lower economic strata, they are deprived of proper food and access to basic health facilities is also constrained. Yanadi tribal children exhibit characteristic features of IDA, stunted growth, wasting and lower cognitive skills, which significantly affects their education. The study investigated the prevalence of anemia in 384 male Yanadi tribal schoolchildren aged 6-14 years and multiple approaches were adopted for survey-based data on social, economic and environment variables of the study-cohort was gathered along with anthropometric information. It was observed that huge majority of the tribal parents lacked primary school education and economic condition of such families is under dilapidating state, leading to consumption of improper food. Strikingly, 56% of the children exhibited the commonest symptom of anemia, pale conjunctiva. Overall analysis of the study participating children, following the WHO grading, close to 28% were found to be anemic and hemoglobin content (g/L) was observed to be close in both age groups, 11 to 14 years (11.889±1.123) and 7 to 10 years (11.734±1.309). Largely, the Yanadi tribal children projected cognitive impairment in the form of poor memory function (33%), down regulated cognitive functions (46%), and impaired attention functions (74.5%). It is somewhat relieving to see that anemia amongst Yanadi male children is not as severe as observed in children of other populations, as reported. However, the study projects out impaired cognitive and behavior skills amongst the participants, emphasizing the need of extending the study in a larger cohort.
印度安得拉邦内洛尔地区亚纳迪部落儿童贫血患病率研究
由于生活条件,部落社区患与饮食有关的健康失调的风险较高。土著部落人口,如“雅纳迪人”,居住在印度安得拉邦。由于处于较低的经济阶层,他们被剥夺了适当的食物,获得基本保健设施的机会也受到限制。雅纳迪部落儿童表现出IDA的特征,发育迟缓,消瘦和认知能力低下,这严重影响了他们的教育。该研究调查了384名6-14岁男性雅纳迪族学童的贫血患病率,并采用多种方法收集了基于调查的研究队列的社会、经济和环境变量数据以及人体测量信息。据观察,绝大多数部落父母缺乏小学教育,这些家庭的经济状况处于破败状态,导致消费不当的食物。引人注目的是,56%的儿童表现出最常见的贫血症状,苍白的结膜。对参与研究的儿童进行总体分析,根据WHO分级,近28%的儿童发现贫血,血红蛋白含量(g/L)在11 ~ 14岁(11.889±1.123)和7 ~ 10岁(11.734±1.309)两个年龄组中均接近。在很大程度上,雅纳迪部落儿童的认知障碍表现为记忆功能差(33%),认知功能下降(46%)和注意力功能受损(74.5%)。令人欣慰的是,亚纳迪族男性儿童的贫血并不像报道中所述的其他人群儿童那样严重。然而,该研究在参与者中发现了认知和行为能力受损,强调需要将研究扩展到更大的队列中。
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