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The relationship between genotype, psychiatric symptoms and quality of life in adult patients with sickle cell disease in São Paulo, Brazil: a cross-sectional study.
Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina - 1 Jan 2000
Mastandréa Érika Bergamini, Lucchesi Fátima, Kitayama Marcela Mayumi Gomes, Figueiredo Maria Stella, Citero Vanessa de Albuquerque
Abstract excerpt
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) may be worsened in sickle cell patients due to the presence of psychiatric disorders. The aims of this study were to describe the psychiatric symptoms in Brazilian sickle cell patients and to evaluate the relationship of these symptoms to the genotype of the disease and the subject's HRQoL. DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional study conducted at the...
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