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Determinants of Sickle Cell Disease Premarital Screening Utilization among Youth Corps Members in Iwo Local Government Area, Osun State, Nigeria
2025-05-30
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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background</bold> : Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic condition in the world. Nigeria has the highest burden of Sickle cell disease in the world with the prevalence of sickle cell trait and the homozygous form as 25% and 2%, respectively. Prevention of SCD is crucial among unmarried adults. Premarital screening is an important strategy for the prevention of S...
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- Literature Corpus work
- abf9b12c-129a-5f0f-90c0-cf5da4a42135
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6542064/v1
