Study of incidence of anemia, hypocalcemia; Type II diabetes mellitus and ECG changes in healthy women staff at tertiary care hospital in western Maharashtra

 

Aparna Patange¹, Mohit Khatri^2*, Harsh Shah³

 

¹Associate Professor, ^2,3II^nd Year Resident, Department of Medicine KIMS, Karad, Maharashtra, INDIA.

Email: mohitkhat1@gmail.com

 

Abstract              Background: In this study, we have screened the healthy women staff in tertiary care hospital for deficiencies of haemoglobin, serum calcium levels, raised blood sugar levels and ECG changes which gets unnoticed in day to day life of a women due to various factors. So an approach is done to screen all healthy females staff. Materials and Methods: 500 healthy females staff from different department (clinical, non clinical, nursing, dental and others) are done with routine investigations in KIMS Hospital Karad on the occasion of women’s day in 2017. 100 women staff from each department are taken for study. Results: Out of all the females, anemia is found as a major deficiency which is followed by hypocalcemia then newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus and few ischemic ECG changes. Conclusion: Out of 500 females, 20 females from the clinical staff are having anemia which is 20%, from non clinical 7 are found to be anemic which is 7%, from dental staff 5 are anemic which is 5%, and from nursing staff 55 are found to be anemic which is 55% and from others 18 are anemic which is 18%. It is also seen that hypocalcemia also has a major impact from clinical dept 21 females are having decreased calcium levels, from non clinical 9 females are there, from dental 05 females are there and from nursing 55 females are there and from other 22 females are having hypocalcemia. There is also newly diagnosed diabetes type 2, from clinical dept 1 female is having raised blood sugars, from dental one female, from nursing 1 female and from others 3 females are having raised blood sugars. ECG are also recorded and ischaemic ECG changes are present, from clinical 1 female and from others 3 females are having ECG changes.

Key Words: anemia, hypocalcemia, Type II diabetes mellitus, ECG.