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Hematology, 2022 Objectives: Thalassemia, the most common global monogenetic disorder, is highly prevalent in southern China. Epidemiological and molecular characterization of thalassemia is important for designing appropriate prevention strategies in high-risk areas ...
GuiDan Xu +10 more
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Vitamin D, Calcium and Phosphor in Patients with β-Thalassemia Major [PDF]
INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY AND MEDICAL LABORATORY, 2019 There has been many reports that patients with β-thalassemia major have bone problems such as thinning of the bone, bone fragility and pathological fractures. For so many years it was believed that the bone problems is mainly caused by marrow expansion due to compenstation of the bone marrow to handle the chronic anaemia and hiypoxia in β-thalassemia
Ade Hariza Harahap +2 more
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Epidemiology of thalassemia among the hill tribe population in Thailand.
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundThalassemia is a severe disease that occurs due to abnormalities in hemoglobin genes. Various genetic factors in different populations lead to different clinical manifestations of thalassemia disease, particularly among people who have a long ...
Tawatchai Apidechkul +4 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 BackgroundThere are limited studies on iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) in carriers of various thalassemia genotypes. However, for pregnant women (PW) with high iron demand, ignoring the phenomenon of carrying the thalassemia genes combined with IDA may lead
Min Wang +6 more
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Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, 2022 Introduction: About 2% of the population in the world are carriers of the thalassemia gene. Thalassemia is highly prevalent in Southern China, and traditional clinical testing methods would cause missed diagnosis of partial static thalassemia.
Jiajia Xian MD +6 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 Background: Thalassemia is a common inherited hematological disease with genetic disorders characterized by imbalanced synthesis of the globin chains.
Jingxian Ding +5 more
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Nutritional status of young children with inherited blood disorders in western Kenya. [PDF]
, 2014 To determine the association between a range of inherited blood disorders and indicators of poor nutrition, we analyzed data from a population-based, cross-sectional survey of 882 children 6–35 months of age in western Kenya.
Ruth, LJ +4 more
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Hematology, 2023 Background Thalassemia, a common autosomal hereditary blood disorder worldwide, mainly contains α- and β-thalassemia. The α-globin gene triplicates allele is harmless for carriers, but aggravates the phenotype of β-thalassemia.
Yujiao Chen +5 more
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Protein C and Protein S Levels in β-Thalassemia Major Patients in Erbil, Kurdistan Region
Cellular and Molecular Biology, 2020 Oxygen is transported in the blood through red blood cells and a protein called hemoglobin. The protein consists of two alpha and two beta chains. The lack of any of these chains is caused by the malfunction of the genes that produce them, and can lead to a genetic disease called thalassemia.
Tareefa Kakakhan, Hadi +2 more
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Prevalence of Inherited Hemoglobin Disorders and Relationships with Anemia and Micronutrient Status among Children in Yaoundé and Douala, Cameroon. [PDF]
, 2017 Information on the etiology of anemia is necessary to design effective anemia control programs. Our objective was to measure the prevalence of inherited hemoglobin disorders (IHD) in a representative sample of children in urban Cameroon, and examine the ...
Brown, Kenneth H +8 more
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