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Thalassemias in South Asia: clinical lessons learnt from Bangladesh.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 18 May 2017
Hossain Mohammad Sorowar, Raheem Enayetur, Sultana Tanvira Afroze, Ferdous Shameema, Nahar Nusrat, Islam Sazia, Arifuzzaman Mohammad, Razzaque Mohammad Abdur, Alam Rabiul, Aziz Sonia, Khatun Hazera, Rahim Abdur, Morshed Manzur
Abstract excerpt
Thalassemias are emerging as a global public health concern. Due to remarkable success in the reduction of childhood mortality by controlling infectious diseases in developing countries, thalassemias are likely to be a major public health concern in the coming decades in South Asia. Despite the fact that Bangladesh lies in the world's thalassemia belt, the information on different aspects (epidemiology, clinical...
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