of all the pregnancies occurred among teenagers and
5% were among women aged 30 years and above. It
was observed that the maximum number of the study
subjects 182 (51.7%) were Muslim. The study subjects
who belonged to joint family were 160 (45.4%) followed
by nuclear family were 133 (37.7%). The maximum
numbers of women were from social classes III and IV
(30.3% and 30.9%, respectively).
As shown in Figure 1, the overall prevalence of anemia
among pregnant women was found to be 87.2%. The
prevalence of mild, moderate, severe anemia were
observed as 24.7%, 54.5%, and 7.9%, respectively.
Thus the prevalence of moderate anemia was high in
comparison to the other degrees of anemia.
As shown in Table 2, it was observed that proportion of