High prevalence of anaemia among African migrants in Germany persists after exclusion of iron deficiency and erythrocyte polymorphisms

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1180-1189

  Müller, Sophie A ^a   Amoah, Stephen K B ^a   Meese, Stefanie ^a   Spranger, Joachim ^a   Mockenhaupt, Frank P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha thalassaemia; Anaemia; Ghana; Iron deficiency; Migration

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGY; IRON; MALARIA; MIGRATORY POPULATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; GHANA; GHANAIAN; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MIGRANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84937642219     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12530     Document Type: Article

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