Changes in the epidemiology of thalassemia in North America: a new minority disease.

doi:10.1542/peds.2005-0843

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Changes in the epidemiology of thalassemia in North America: a new minority disease.

Pediatrics - 1 Dec 2005

Vichinsky Elliott P, MacKlin Eric A, Waye John S, Lorey Fred, Olivieri Nancy F

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OBJECTIVE: Changing patterns of immigration to North America, along with improved treatment, have altered the clinical spectrum of thalassemia, one of the world's most common genetic diseases. The new demography of the disease, with its widely variable phenotypes, has implications for its diagnos...

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Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Child
Child, Preschool
Genotype
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Middle Aged
North America
Phenotype
Thalassemia

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