Low educational status of head of household as a proxy for poverty, is associated with severe anemia amongst children with sickle cell disease living in a low-resource setting: evidence from the spring trial

Severe anemia, defined as hemoglobin level <6.0 g/dL, is an independent risk factor for death in individuals with sickle cell disease living in resource-limited settings. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 941 children with sickle cell anemia; defined as phenotype HbSS or HbSβ(0) thalassemia...

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Veröffentlicht in:Br J Haematol
Hauptverfasser: Bello-Manga, Halima, Galadanci, Aisha A., Abdullahi, Shehu, Ali, Shehi, Jibir, Binta, Gambo, Safiya, Haliru, Lawal, Jordan, Lori C., Aliyu, Muktar H., Rodeghier, Mark, Kassim, Adetola A., DeBaun, Michael R., Galadanci, Najibah A.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2020
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669582/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32415792
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjh.16746
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