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Abstract Iron deficiency anemia is one of the major concern. The high rate incidence hasbeen related to insufficient iron intake, accompanied by chronic intestinal blood loss due toparasitic and malarial infections. Iron deficiency anemia is the commonest type of anemiathroughout the world. It is defined as a clinical condition, characterized by reduction inhemoglobin below the normal for the age, sex, physiological conditions and altitude abovesea level in a patient. It is a global problem, mainly affecting poor people, pregnant,lactating females, growing children and elderly people. It has been reported to affect about50-60% of young children and pregnant females as well as 20-30% of non-pregnantfemales in the developing countries. This high rate has been related to insufficient ironintake, high nutritional needs during childhood and pregnancy, poor bioavailability of iron,and an accompanying chronic intestinal blood loss due to parasitic and malarialinfestations. The samples were collected from private laboratories .where 100 bloodsamples were obtained and the studied tests were performed to detection of CBC andferritin levels.This study revealed that out of 100 anemic patients, 35% were that of AIHA.The most affected age group was 21-40 years with frequency 42.55%. AIHA was morecommon in females (42.85%) than in male (21.62%). Out of 100 anemic patients,microcytic hypochromic anemia was predominant in 47% followed by macrocytic anemia(31%) and then normocytic normochromic anemia (22%). Out of 47 microcytichypochromic anemic patients, 12 had normal serum ferritin. There was a statisticalsignificant difference in Hb (p=0.011), MCV (p=0.0001), MCH (p=0.0001), MCHC(p=0.0001) and serum ferritin (p=0.0001) among all types of anemia. There was astatistical significant positive correlation of ferritin with Hemoglobin (0.257, p=0.01),MCV (0.772, p=0.0001), MCH(0.741, p=0.0001) and MCHC (0.494, p=0.0001).
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Keywords: Hematological, Iron deficiency, Autoimmune