Reproductive behaviour of mothers of children with beta-thalassaemia major
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Reproductive behaviour of mothers of children with beta-thalassaemia major.
Thalassaemia is the most common monogenic autosomal hereditary disease worldwide. This questionnaire-based cross-sectional study looked at the reproductive behaviour of 156 mothers of children affected with beta-thalassaemia major (Cooley anaemia) in Fars province, southern Islamic Republic of Iran. Regardless of the number of affected children, the parents of children with Cooley anaemia had a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1020-3397
DOI: 10.26719/2012.18.3.246