Evaluation of the prevention program for anemia with from abnormal erythrocytes, from 1989 to 2013 in Guantánamo

Abstract

A descriptive, retrospective study is done from the total of pregnant studied from 1989 to 2013 whom were applied hemoglobin electrophoresis test, determining an abnormal hemoglobin. The data are obtained from the files of the Provincial Center of Medical Genetics, the parameters were analyzed: total of pregnant women studied and its relation to the total of pregnant women that were studied, number of pregnant women with hemoglobinopathies, husbands that were studied, detection of high-risk partners and molecular studies. In the last study of five years was obtained 97 % by the use of linear records in the areas of health, studying a total of 35.571 pregnant. Of these a total of 11.783 pregnant were carriers, a prevalence of (5 %) and the same carrier frequency hemoglobin (Hb AS) was superior to 5.51 %, on the frequency of AC to Hb was 0.90 %, also remains a low molecular prenatal testing coverage, reaching only 70 %.