Factors associated with lowered intelligence in homozygous sickle cell disease.

doi:10.1136/adc.73.4.316

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Factors associated with lowered intelligence in homozygous sickle cell disease.

Archives of disease in childhood - 1 Oct 1995

Knight S, Singhal A, Thomas P, Serjeant G

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The intelligence quotient (IQ) of 60 patients with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and 60 age and sex matched controls with a normal haemoglobin (AA) genotype aged 15-18 years, followed up in a cohort study from birth, was assessed by the Wechsler intelligence scales for children or for adult...

Topics

Adolescent
Anemia, Sickle Cell
Body Height
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Genotype
Growth
Homozygote
Humans
Intelligence
Male
Socioeconomic Factors
Wechsler Scales

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