The multifactorial burden of anaemia in Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 864-865

  Sliwa, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN;

AFRICA; ANEMIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORM INFECTION;

ANEMIA; HEART FAILURE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 71949096285     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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