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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"sickle cell trait"”.
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Haematological and nutritional status of Sudanese women with sickle cell trait and anaemia: does sickle cell trait compromise birth outcomes?
… status of Sudanese women who have both sickle cell trait and sickle cell anaemia and has considered whether women with sickle cell trait experience worse outcomes of childbirth than those without. Non pregnant group with sickle cell anaemia: In this study, (n=39) sickle cell anaemia and …
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Sickle cell trait and targeted genomic variants in chronic kidney disease an African cohort
… Other emerging genetic factors such as Sickle Cell trait (SCT) have been investigated mostly among African Americans. Sickle Cell trait (SCT) has the highest burden in sub-Saharan Africans, because of a natural selection, attributed to its protective advantages against the severest form …
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The sickle-cell trait: A study of its distribution and effects in some Bantu tribes of South Central Africa
… explanation. I first became interested in the sickle-cell anomaly in 1951, while employed as a medical officer to an asbestos r::iining group in Southern .Rhodesia. Here I had :for investigation a population of several thousand adult male Bantu, very mixed as to tribe, drawn from a wide area of …
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The sickle-cell trait: A study of its distribution and effects in some Bantu tribes of South Central Africa
… explanation. I first became interested in the sickle-cell anomaly in 1951, while employed as a medical officer to an asbestos r::iining group in Southern .Rhodesia. Here I had :for investigation a population of several thousand adult male Bantu, very mixed as to tribe, drawn from a wide area of …
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Athlete and Coach Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Sickle Cell Trait and National Collegiate Athletic Association Mandated Testing: Recommendations for Intervention
<p>Individuals with Sickle Cell Trait have died suddenly after extreme exertion during military training, athletic practice or games (Kerle & Nishimura, 1996; Harrelson, Fincher & Robinson, 1995; Howe & Bowden, 2007). One of those deaths, Dale Lloyd, a football player at Rice University, prompted a …
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Knowledge and Awareness of Sickle Cell Trait among NCAA Division I FBS, Division I FCS, Division II, and Division III Head Football Coaches and Strength and Conditioning Specialists
… of this study is to examine the knowledge of Sickle Cell Trait among head football coaches and strength and conditioning specialists within all three NCAA Divisions. Additionally, a second purpose is to identify whether or not head football coaches and strength and conditioning specialists …
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Rheological aspects of sickle cell anemia and related hemoglobinopathies
… on patients with the following diseases: normal, sickle cell, sickle cell trait, sickle cell hemoglobin C, homozygous hemoglobin C, sickle cell beta plus thalassemia, and sickle cell beta zero thalassemia. The rheological parameters obtained from a Casson's plot were the apparent yield stress and …
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Understanding The Pathogenesis of Renal Medullary Carcinoma
… predominantly affects young individuals with sickle cell trait (SCT). It is not currently understood why RMC only affects certain individuals with SCT. We found that patients with RMC more frequently participated in high-intensity exercise than matched controls. Using mouse models of SCT, we …
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Sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease is a group of disorders that affects hemoglobin, and causes distorted sickle- or crescent- shaped red blood cells. It is a genetic disease acquired by the inheritance of two abnormal hemoglobin S genes (HbS), one from each parent. SCD is most common among people from Africa, the …
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ΤΟ ΕΠΙΠΕΔΟ ΤΟΥ 2,3-ΔΙΦΩΣΦΟΡΟΓΛΥΚΕΡΙΝΙΚΟΥ ΟΞΕΩΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΡΥΘΡΩΝ ΑΙΜΟΣΦΑΙΡΙΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΔΡΕΠΑΝΟΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΚΗ ΝΟΣΟ
… IN 32 CONTROL-SUBJECTS; II) IN 18 PATIENTS WITH SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA; III) IN 23 PATIENTS WITHSICKLE-THALASSEMIA; IV) IN 51 INDIVIDUALS WITH SICKLE-CELL TRAIT AND V) IN 18INDIVIDUALS WITH B-THALASSEMIA TRAIT. IN GROUP I, 2,3 DPG LEVEL WAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER IN WOMEN THAN IN MEN AND A NEGATIVE …
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Factors associated with stillbirth and assessment of maternal health awareness among residents of northern Ghana
… Rhesus negative (aOR=1.75,95%CI:1.12-2.73), sickle cell trait (aOR=2.29,95%CI:1.27-4.10), foetal malpresentation (aOR=2.67,95%CI:1.33-5.35), eclampsia (aOR = 9.00,95%CI:2.91- 27.87) and premature rupture of membranes (aOR=2.64, 95%CI:1.17-5.95). Attending >4 antenatal care visits (aOR=0.53, …
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Pharmacogenomics of sickle cell disease therapeutics: pain and drug metabolism associated gene variants and hydroxyurea-induced post-transcriptional expression of miRNAs
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a common blood disease caused by a single nucleotide substitution (c.20T>A, p.Glu6Val) in the beta globin gene on chromosome 11. The prevalence of the disease is high throughout large areas in sub-Saharan Africa, the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East, and India due …