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African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Volume 3 | Issue 2 | 2025 | 17 ORIGINAL RESEARCH African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Volume 3 | Issue 3 | 2025 | A cross-sectional study of the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia in pregnant patients presenting for antenatal care at a secondary level institution, Mowbray Maternity Hospital arrangement of funding and reviewed drafts of the manuscript. Funding Acino, for their generous support and funding of the tests. Funding for the tests was provided as a donation. The funder had no role in the design, conduct or writing of the study. Conflicts of interest None. Appendix A: Figures and Tables: Figure 1: study flow diagram Table 1: Characteristics of the study population. Demographic and clinical data. Anaemic (N=76) Not-anaemic (N=56) P- Value Age (years), mean (SD) 29.2 (5.8) 30.5 (7.5) 0.280 Gestation (years), mean (SD) 32.9 (6.3) 31.7 (7.2) 0.288 Height(years), mean (SD) 160.1 (7.0) 160 (5.7) 0.967 Weight (years), mean (SD) 78.3(22.4) 83.4 (22.8) 0.201 Hb (g/dl) 9.88 11.62 <0.001 Comorbidities, n (%) Hypertension 2/76 (2) 9/56 (16) 0.009 Diabetes 0/76 (0) 4/56 (7) 0.030 COPD/Asthma 4/76 (5) 5/56 (8) 0.496 HIV 19/76 (25) 10/56 (17) 0.399 Smoking 12/76 (15) 4/56 (7) 0.179 Symptoms, n (%) Mental fatigue 17/76 (22) 19/56 (33) 0.168 Mouth ulcers 2/76 (2) 1/56 (1) 1.0 Infection 12/76 (15) 11/56 (19) 0.645 Shortness of breath 12/76 (15) 15/56 (26) 0.133 Cravings 18/76 (23) 6/56 (10) 0.069 Restless legs 8/76 (10) 4/56 (7) 0.557 Hair loss 7/76 (9) 1/56 (1) 0.137 Headache 23/76 (30) 13/56 (23) 0.432 Physical fatigue 44/76 (57) 25/56 (44) 0.159 Brittle nails 5/76 (6) 1/56 (1) 0.241 Cold intolerance 3/76 (3) 2/56 (3) 1.0 Paleness 11/76 (14) 10/56 (17) 0.636 Symptoms 64/76 (84) 41/56 (73) 0.133 Hb = Haemoglobin, COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, HIV = Human Immunodeficiency virus REFERENCES § ® ± ® £ ® ® ¡§ ² ¯ ¤ ¤ ¯ ¯ ³ ® ¡ ² ¥ ´ § ¯ § ¨ ¦ ® ± ¨ ® § ¯ Patients screened, N=460 Not anaemic on screeningtest, n=247 Anaemic on screeningtest, n=213 Formal FBCdone, n=132 Anaemic onFBC, n=76 Irondeficiencyanaemia n=68 Absolute iron deficiency anaemia, n=56 Relative iron deficiency n=12 Excluded,_total n=81 - refused, n=39 - underage, n=9 -missed, n=6 -other_reasons, n=27 Not anaemic onFBC, n=56 No irondeficiency n=7 Ferritin=30,transferrin saturationnot done, n=1