the relationship between anthropometric factors and iron deficiency anemia

introduction of disorders directly related to prevalence cardiovascular diseases are iron deficiency anemia and obesity, especially that of abdomen. the purpose of the current study has been determining the relationship between anthropometric including body mass index and the size of abdomen and iron-shortage anemia .the studies conducted in the area are very limited.                            methodology descriptive, analytical, and cross sectional methods of research have been applied in the study. the instruments used to collect the data were a set of organized items in the questionnaire and a checklist contained the measurement of abdominal obesity, height, weight, bmi, the results of ferritin levels, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and tibc and mcv. the tools were validated via content validity and test-retest. the participants were the staff (n=300) of hamadan branch, islamic azad university, iran, who were selected via census sampling technique. to analyze the data descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, that is, chi-square, pearson correlation coefficient, and anova were run using spss software.                             results 48.4% had overweight and 43.9% had various degrees of general obesity. 45.7% of women and 1.9% of men suffered from abdominal obesity. 3.2% of men had ferritin levels less than 20ng/dl and 79.2% of them had high levels of tibc, while 31.5% of women had ferritin serum less than 12ng per dl and 73.9% of them had high tibc. there was a significant relationship between abdominal obesity and tibc, hb, hct, and ferritin serum (p<0.0005).                            discussion and conclusion the results of this study indicate the high prevalence of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity and their relationship with iron deficiency anemia. these are non-communicable disease, which are directly related to the lifestyle.