Defining anemia by race using epidemiologic data

Blood

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2941-

  Artz, Andrew ^a   Dong, XinQi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; CAUCASIAN; HUMAN; LETTER; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; ADULT; AGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NOTE; RACE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGING; ANEMIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 41949123983     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-06-095000     Document Type: Letter

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