@Article{, title={Types of Anaemia and its Correlation with Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis among Kurdish Population of Iraq}, author={Hisham A. Getta and Najmaddin Khoshnaw and Alaa Fadhil Alwan and Sundus F.A and Raouf R. Mirza}, journal={Iraq Joural of Hematology المجلة العراقية لامراض الدم}, volume={5}, number={1}, pages={114-128}, year={2016}, abstract={Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory autoimmune diseasecharacterized by articular and extra-articular manifestation as weight loss, fatigue, malaise, andanemia.Objectives: The aim of this study was to find the prevalence of different types of anemia and itscorrelation with the disease activity among patients with RA in Sulaymaniyah province and todetermine the associated risk factors.Patients and Methods: A cross sectional study carried out in Sulaymaniyah general medicalHospital for periods from October-2014 to the end of June-2015.A convenient sample of 100rheumatoid arthritis patients were selected from patients seen in the rheumatology clinic. Onehundred healthy voluntary controls of same age groups were selected and same parameters fordiagnosis of anemia are used in both groups.Results: The prevalence of all types of anemias among the rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patientswas 40% which more than that found in control group. The common types of anemia was anemiaof chronic disease (28%), iron deficiency (10%), thalassemia minor (1%), and megaloblasticanemia 1%. We found a significant correlation of RA with each low hemoglobin, low hematocrit,high leucocyte count and high ESR. Anemia among RA patients in our study was significantlymore prevalent among low socioeconomic status patients. The majority of RA patients hadmoderately or high active disease, which revealed no association between disease activity andanemia (p value=0.3).Conclusion: the prevalence and types of anemias among RA patients in Sulaymaniyah wascomparable to that found in other studies and it was two times common than the normal healthypeoples. In our study we concluded that little evidence found between disease activity andanemia.

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