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High carrier prevalence with poor knowledge of thalassaemia among the university students from indigenous communities in Bangladesh

2020-09-02

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Thalassemia is an inherited life-threatening but preventable haemoglobin disorder. South Asian countries including Bangladesh are the hotspots of world’s thalassemia belt. Indigenous communities are underprivileged and vulnerable to genetic disorders including thalassaemia. Understanding the perspectives of thalassemia of the future community leaders (indigenous university s...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-69965/v1

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