Parámetros hematológicos a través del hemograma en deportistas de la Federación Deportiva del Cañar, 2017

Abstract

Anemia is classified as a public health problem, where the content of hemoglobin in the blood is below the reference values. This value is modified with age, sex, pregnancy, and geographic location. Athletes are prone to suffer a decrease in iron in their body, due to loss or inadequate intake of this mineral that compromise their physical performance and resistance, which is why they can develop a secondary anemia, by hemolysis and oxidative stress that originates when carrying out high resistance exercises, which lead to frequent digestive hemorrhages due to the decrease of iron (1) (2). OBJECTIVE: To determine the hematological parameters in the athletes of the Sports Federation of Cañar 2017. METHODOLOGY: The study was observational and descriptive. The universe consisted of 180 athletes; the sample was worked with the 180 participants by request of the Sports Federation of Cañar. The research project was socialized, giving the respective consents, informed assent and the application of a form. The samples were processed in the Clinical Laboratory of the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital fulfilling all the biosafety and quality management standards, the data were tabulated in the SPSS V 15.0 of free configuration in spanish and Excel program. RESULTS: The most predominant age was 14 years with 38.9%, the male with 26.7%, and 55.6% come from the coast, the hours of training that predominates is two hours with 57.2%. The results, in the white series shows leukocytosis of 5.6% and leukopenia of 2.8%, in the red series, 8.9% (Sierra) and 11.1% (Costa), had high values of red blood cells, in the hematocrit the 7.8% of high values correspond to the coast. The erythrocyte indexes with high values of 0.6% were in the VCM and CHCM.