Prevalence of anemia in older adults attend the Inmaculada Concepción District Hospital of Caaguazú, year 2021

Abstract

Anemia is common in older adults and its prevalence increases with increasing age, although it has a high prevalence, there are different levels of hemoglobin according to the clinical laboratory, below which we must diagnose anemia and identify possible causes. which are largely not easy to establish. The objective of this research is to determine the prevalence of anemia in older adults who attend the Inmaculada Concepción de Caaguazú District Hospital, in 2021. A non-experimental design, a quantitative approach and a descriptive level were applied. The total population is 708 elderly patients. The samples were all the elderly patients (60 years and older) who attended the Inmaculada Concepción District Hospital of Caaguazú, in the year 2021. For the data collection, we proceeded by reviewing the records of the elderly patients through through HDIC laboratory reports. The most representative results show that the degree or severity of anemia for both male and female patients is mild or grade I, there is a greater predominance of normochromic normocytic anemia in elderly patients and microcytic anemia follows with a lower proportion. hypochromic, the level of red blood cells for both sexes was determined to be low or outside the normal range. It was determined that there is a prevalence of 50% of patients suffering from anemia. It was obtained that there is a higher prevalence of anemia in male patients with 63% and with a 37% prevalence for female patients.