Prevalence of short stature in transfusion dependent beta thalassemia patients in a tertiary care centre in North East India

BACKGROUND: beta thalassemia is one of the most common hereditary hemoglobinopathy requiring regular blood transfusion to help reduce the complications of anemia and allow normal growth in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study done on 50 numbers of transfusion dependent bet...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Sreejana, Bezboruah, Gayatri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36119257
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2120_21
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description BACKGROUND: beta thalassemia is one of the most common hereditary hemoglobinopathy requiring regular blood transfusion to help reduce the complications of anemia and allow normal growth in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study done on 50 numbers of transfusion dependent beta thalassemia patients between 18 months and 18 years of age in North east India. Growth parameters like weight, height, BMI were recorded. RESULTS: Overall prevalence of stunting was 68%, a significant association was found between stunting and religious connotation.
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spelling pubmed-94808192022-09-17 Prevalence of short stature in transfusion dependent beta thalassemia patients in a tertiary care centre in North East India Sharma, Sreejana Bezboruah, Gayatri J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: beta thalassemia is one of the most common hereditary hemoglobinopathy requiring regular blood transfusion to help reduce the complications of anemia and allow normal growth in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study done on 50 numbers of transfusion dependent beta thalassemia patients between 18 months and 18 years of age in North east India. Growth parameters like weight, height, BMI were recorded. RESULTS: Overall prevalence of stunting was 68%, a significant association was found between stunting and religious connotation. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-06 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9480819/ /pubmed/36119257 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2120_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Prevalence of short stature in transfusion dependent beta thalassemia patients in a tertiary care centre in North East India
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title_short Prevalence of short stature in transfusion dependent beta thalassemia patients in a tertiary care centre in North East India
title_sort prevalence of short stature in transfusion dependent beta thalassemia patients in a tertiary care centre in north east india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36119257
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2120_21
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