DOI: 10.21276/sasjm.2018.4.11.7

Pages: 203-206

As a significant public health problem in our country and the world, anemia is defined as hemoglobin levels below normal standards associated with age and gender. This study aims to determine the etiology of anemia and effective risk factors in patients diagnosed with anemia. This study was conducted by inspecting the recorded data and patient files of 174 randomly selected patients above the age of 18 years who had presented to our polyclinic between May 2018-October 2018 and had received a diagnosis of anemia. In the evaluation of findings, SPSS for Windows 22 package software was utilized for statistical analyses. Of the 174 patients who participated, 19 (10.9%) were male with a median age of 69 years and 155 (89.1%) were female with a median age of 37 years. The distribution of anemia types based on gender revealed that; 6 male patients (31.5%) and 33 female patients (21.2%) had vitamin B12 deficiency anemia (BDA), no male patients and 4 female patients (2.5%) had folic acid deficiency anemia (FADA),