Elderly survivors with homozygous sickle cell disease [24]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 642-643

  Serjeant, Graham R ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ^b   Hambleton, Ian R ^c  

^a Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN F;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; BETA THALASSEMIA; BONE PAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEREDITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846881560     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc066547     Document Type: Letter

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