Prevalence of inherited hemoglobin disorders and relationships with anemia and micronutrient status among children in Yaoundé and Douala, Cameroon

Nutrients

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Engle Stone, Reina ^a   Williams, Thomas N ^b   Nankap, Martin ^c   Ndjebayi, Alex ^c   Gimou, Marie Madeleine ^d   Oyono, Yannick ^d   Tarini, Ann ^c   Brown, Kenneth H ^a,e   Green, Ralph ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Helen Keller International ^*  (Kenya)

^c HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^e BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Children; Hemoglobinopathy; Iron; Sickle cell; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CAMEROON; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALARIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETICULOCYTE; RISK FACTOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; COMPLICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; CAMEROON; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85021921238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu9070693     Document Type: Article

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