Prevalence of retinolemie among the children and women in age to give birth in two areas of Mali

Abstract

According to WHO, 34 countries in the world know deficits in vitamin A, of which 18 are of West Africa. Vitamin deficiency A closely related to the increase in morbidity and the infant mortality, with the risk of diarrhoea and pulmonary infections is almost always accompanied by a malnutrition and constitutes a problem of public health in the majority of the African countries With an aim of evaluating vitamin statute A of the women in age to procreate and children from 24 to 59 months in the district of Bamako and the area of Koulikoro through the proportioning of the serum retinol and to determine its bond with malnutrition has presents study was carried out. A transverse study stratified by poll in cluster unfolded itself of January 30 to March 16 2006 in two regions of the Mali: Koulikoro (rural zone) and the district of Bamako (urban zone). He concerned a sample of 692 children of 24 to 59 month and 803 women in age to procreate. The dosage of the blood retinol had been realized to determine the prevalency of the deficiency in vitamin A with the children of 24 - 59 month and the women in age to procreate and its links with the malnutrition were analyzed. The study showed that 78,2% of children of 24 to 59 rural month presented a deficiency in vitamin A significantly more pronounced than in urban environment with 17%. With the women also, the rural ones more are touched by this lack with 50% in rural environment and 29,2% in urban environment.