Anemia ferropênica e avaliação nutricional em pacientes com hanseníase (casos novos) atendidos em um centro de referencia na cidade de Manaus-AM

Abstract

Iron deficiency is considered the main cause of the nutritionais anemias, which affects approximately 0,5 billion people around the world, mainly in developing countries. The lack of studies on iron deficiency anemia and nutritional status in leprosy and the importance of this information before the treatment with drugs with hemolytic potential, was the reason for this study. After the approval of the Committee of Ethics in Research, eighty two patients paucibacillary and multibacillary leprosy clinical vials, new cases and without treatment were studied. To verify the status of iron in their bodies, biochemical, dietary and evaluation of the status nutritional parameters were used. Nine patients (11%) presented hemoglobin concentration below normal level and four of them (4,9%) iron deficiency anemia accordcing to the sex and the age. The nutritional evaluation for BMI revealed that 46,3% were classified as eutrophic, of 53,7% with dystrolphic BMI 48,8% presented overweight and obesity. The dietary evaluation demonstrated that the appropriate energy consumption reached 15,9 %, the diet being normoprotein, normoglycidic and normolipidic kind. Women presented smaller indexes of iron ingestion, mainly those whose age ranged from 18 to 50 years. The results showed a little occurrence of iron deficiency anemia, probably due to the consumption of foods with iron bioavailability.