Among other threshold findings, the investigators found no ancestry-specific genetic variants that might contribute to variation in hemoglobin concentrations among diverse populations. Researchers ...

Anemia rates among children and teenagers in India may be 20 per cent lower than currently reported as diagnosis is based on ethnically inappropriate blood count thresholds, a study argues. The study ...

Chicago, IL - Key aspects of the current thinking about anemia's impact on prognosis in patients with heart failure and other populations were extended but also questioned by observational studies ...

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Careful assessment of anemia and related symptoms is made more difficult by the lack of a standard definition for anemia, a disregard for gender-specific differences in normal hemoglobin levels, and a ...

The cutoffs defining anaemia based on haemoglobin and haematocrit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States (US) are different. We compared the prevalences resulting ...

Anemia is a Greek word meaning a state of deficiency of blood. As per technical definition, anemia is said to be present when hemoglobin (one of the blood components combining with oxygen and ...

Risk for proximal cancers low among patients without broad-definition anemia and/or abdominal mass. HealthDay News — In patients without broad-definition anemia and/or abdominal mass, flexible ...

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Sickle cell anemia is a disease involving abnormally shaped red blood cells, which then have difficulty circulating properly through the body. It is caused by a one nucleotide substitution in one gene ...