The importance of using ethnically appropriate reference ranges for growth assessment in sickle cell disease

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 352-353

  Patey, R A ^a   Sylvester, K P ^a   Rafferty, G F ^a   Dick, M ^a   Greenough, Anne ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STANDARD;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGING; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0036789618     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.87.4.352     Document Type: Article

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