Constructing a management system to prevent anemia in female college students

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K24180
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0908:Society medicine, nursing, and related fields
• Research Institution: Fujita Health University
• Principal Investigator: Umemura Mariko 藤田医科大学, 保健衛生学部, 助手 (30848651)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 貧血 / 思春期 / プレコンセプショナルケア / ヘモグロビン / 経皮的 / 非侵襲的 / 女子大学生 / 食事摂取量

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There was a correlation between blood and transcutaneous hemoglobin levels regardless of the presence or absence of a peak at 760 nm wavelength in the relative diffuse reflectance spectrum of blood hemoglobin levels. This suggested that transcutaneous hemoglobin levels are a surrogate for blood hemoglobin levels.
By measuring transcutaneous hemoglobin levels at once a month in female university students, students with transcutaneous hemoglobin levels below the anemia threshold of 12.0 g/dL showed improvement after 2 months. This suggests that regular noninvasive/transcutaneous hemoglobin level measurement is effective in improving anemia in female college students.
This sutudy suggests that establishing a system for periodic transcutaneous hemoglobin measurement in universities, which is noninvasive and can be performed frequently without special techniques, can contribute to improving anemia in female university students.

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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では定期的な経皮的ヘモグロビン値測定による女子大学生の貧血改善に効果的であった。これより、非侵襲的で特別な技術を必要とせずに頻回に測定が可能な経皮的ヘモグロビン値を大学内で定期的に測定するシステムを構築することにより女子大学生の貧血改善に貢献できることが示唆され、その意義は大きい。