TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Anemia During Pregnancy A1 - Acosta, Ometeotl M. A1 - Dudley, Donald J. A2 - Pacheco, Luis D. A2 - Saade, George R. A2 - Hankins, Gary D.V. PY - 2015 T2 - Maternal Medicine AB - Anemia is one of the most common medical complications that occurs during pregnancy and is associated with numerous medical and obstetric complications. Women with anemia can present with vague complaints of fatigue, weakness, and dyspnea resulting from tissue hypoxia because hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying capacity of blood, is abnormally low. However, most women with mild-to-moderate anemia have no symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) accounts for hemodilution of pregnancy and defines anemia as 11 g/dL in the first and third trimesters and 10.5 g/dL in the second trimester which reflects the greater expansion of plasma volume compared with red cell volume during the second trimester.1 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 42% of pregnant women worldwide are anemic with half of these women having iron deficiency as the cause.2 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/08 UR - obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1115520763 ER -