Coffee consumption habits and haemoglobin level: a cross-sectional study in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Wilayah Persekutuan, Kuala Lumpur

Ghazali, Nur Syafiqah (2019) Coffee consumption habits and haemoglobin level: a cross-sectional study in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Wilayah Persekutuan, Kuala Lumpur. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Iron is an essential component that can be found in haemoglobin. Lack of iron stores in the body may lead to anaemia, a condition which few number of red blood cells functioning in carrying oxygen throughout the body. Based on World Health Organisation, the proportion of worldwide prevalence of anaemia was high among women and children where 57% of pregnant women, 48% of nonpregnant women and 68% of preschool children. Coffee has been shown to be one of dietary inhibitors that can inhibit iron absorption. Therefore, the study was carried out to investigated the association between coffee consumption habits with haemoglobin level in pregnant women. A total of 176 pregnant women with mean ±SD age of 29.30 ± 4.28 with range between 25 to 29 years old attending antenatal clinics in Wilayah Persekutuan, Kuala Lumpur were involved in this study. Questionnaire on sociodemographic, pregnancy history, symptom of anaemia ,dietary iron intake and caffeine consumption habits were used. The weight, height, BMI and haemoglobin level were retrieved from antenatal medical records. From the findings, 93.6% of participants were non-anaemic with mean ±SD haemoglobin of 11.99 ± 1.06mg/dl, 54% were chasing medium size cup of coffee and 68.8% drink one cup of coffee per day. However, there is no significant negative association between frequency of coffee intake (r=-0.052, p=0.495) and amount of coffee intake (r= -0.018, p= 0.813) with haemoglobin level. Thus, the findings highlighted that habitual coffee consumption is not a major factor that lead to low haemoglobin level in pregnant women. Early nutritional education in pregnant women could reduced the prevalence of anaemia in future.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms Norafizah Radzuan
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2026 07:08
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2026 07:08
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/2726

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