Cambios en los parámetros eritrocitarios durante la edad adulta tardía

Abstract

Over time, older adults will be the most representative population that provides information on existing pathologies based on quality of life factors–sex, age, geographical location, type of diet, and body limitations, which are triggers for changes within the red series such as: hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular hemoglobin value, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration and mean corpuscular volume, with evidence in this type of population according to the study of the blood count as a routine examination that will allow the doctor to assess the diagnosis of a future anemia. It was conducted a systematic review in databases such as SciELO, PubMed, Redalyc, Elsevier, Dialnet, academic Google, among others as well as reports from the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador with the key words "erythrocyte changes", "older adult", "anemia in the elderly" worldwide, Latin America, and Ecuador in order to gather a single context of the research works on the subject; describing the causes that these erythrocyte changes manifest in older adults. It concludes that the changes in the values obtained in both hemoglobin and hematocrit will be the most representative to consider anemia, with a predominance of normochromic normocytic anemia, associating chronic disorders and sociodemographic factors of the elderly. Therefore, the bibliographic review will serve as base for future research that proposes the study of the elderly and the red series.