2018
DOI: 10.4103/ami.ami_60_17
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Prevalence of sickle cell disease among children attending plateau specialist hospital, Jos, Nigeria

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
3
2

Citation Types

2
4
0

Year Published

2019
2019
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
6

Relationship

0
6

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 9 publications
(13 citation statements)
references
References 1 publication
2
4
0
Order By: Relevance
“…The prevalence of Sickle cell anaemia in this area is 8.57 % which is similar to the study of Stephen N et al (1) reported 2.69 % and Kamble et al (12) reported 5.7 % Incidence was maximum in schedule cast and tribes 67 % which was similar to Stephen N et al (1) and Kamble et al (12) reported 70 %.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…The prevalence of Sickle cell anaemia in this area is 8.57 % which is similar to the study of Stephen N et al (1) reported 2.69 % and Kamble et al (12) reported 5.7 % Incidence was maximum in schedule cast and tribes 67 % which was similar to Stephen N et al (1) and Kamble et al (12) reported 70 %.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…75 %-85 % of the affected children are born in Africa. (1) The coincidence of large tribal populations with the 'sickle cell belt' of Central India and northern http://jmscr.igmpublication.org/home/ ISSN (e)-2347-176x ISSN (p) 2455-0450 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i11.21 Kerala and Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu has given assumption that tribal people are more prone to the HbS gene. (2) In 1910, Dr. James Herrick, a Chicago physician, was the first American to report and identify elongated, sickle-shaped haemoglobin in an anaemic Grenadian student's blood smear.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Admittedly, this study is of children who had some reason to be attending hospital, the prevalence of sickle cell anaemia among 400 children patients was 59 (14.8%); lower than (26.9%)/1000 the prevalence of SCA documented in a recent similar study by Stephen et al [19] in Nigeria, our sample was smaller than that of Nigeria.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 58%
“…While the HbSS and HbSC diseases are highly prevalent in areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly West Africa, the HbSβ-Thal, HbSD and HbSE are more common in parts of the Middle East and Asia. [5][6][7][8][9][10] The prevalence of the carrier state for HbS ranges from 5% to 40% among populations in these endemic areas; thus driving the epidemiology of the disease. [10,11] Sickle cell disease (SCD), has major psychological, social and economic implication on the victim as well as the family.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%