Knowledge of Premarital Couples Regarding Premarital Screening Thalassemia
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Premarital Screening of Beta Thalassemia Minor in north-east of Iran
Abstract Background Beta thalassemia is a preventable disease. Iran has about 20,000Patients who are homozygote for β-thalassaemia and 3,750,000 carriers. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of beta thalassemia minor among men who underwent premarital screening in Quchana city in Khorasan Razavi region of Iran Materials and Methods This research is a descriptive cross-sect...
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BACKGROUND Beta thalassemia is a preventable disease. Iran has about 20,000Patients who are homozygote for β-thalassaemia and 3,750,000 carriers. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of beta thalassemia minor among men who underwent premarital screening in Quchana city in Khorasan Razavi region of Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This research is a descriptive cross-sectional stud...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jurnal Keperawatan
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2443-0900,2086-3071
DOI: 10.22219/jk.v11i2.10740