"Follow-Up Studies"

Newborn screening for abnormal haemoglobins in Jamaica: Practical issues in an island programme.
OBJECTIVE: To report the diagnostic challenges of newborn screening for abnormal haemoglobins. SETTING: Cord blood samples from 13 …
Serjeant, Graham R, Serjeant, Beryl E, Mason, Karlene P, Gibson, Felicea, Gardner, Ruth-Ann, Warren, Lansford, Hambleton, Ian R, Thein, Swee L, Happich, Margit
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Causes of death and early life determinants of survival in homozygous sickle cell disease: The Jamaican cohort study from birth.
Globally, the majority of persons born with sickle cell disease do not have access to hydroxyurea or more expensive interventions. The …
Graham R. Serjeant, Nicki Chin, Monika R. Asnani, Beryl E. Serjeant, Karlene P. Mason, Ian R. Hambleton, Jennifer M. Knight-Madden
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A comparison of acute and long-term management of stroke patients in Barbados and South London.
BACKGROUND: To compare health care utilisation between stroke patients living in a middle-income country with similar patients in a …
Nigel C. Smeeton, David O. C. Corbin, Anselm J. Hennis, Ian R. Hambleton, Henry S. Fraser, Charles D. A. Wolfe, Peter U. Heuschmann
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Effect of herpes simplex suppression on incidence of HIV among women in Tanzania.
BACKGROUND: Infection with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is associated with an increased risk of acquiring infection with the …
Deborah Watson-Jones, Helen A. Weiss, Mary Rusizoka, John Changalucha, Kathy Baisley, Kokugonza Mugeye, Clare Tanton, David Ross, Dean Everett, Tim Clayton, Rebecca Balira, Louise Knight, Ian Hambleton, Jerome Le Goff, Laurent Belec, Richard Hayes
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Fecundity and pregnancy outcome in a cohort with sickle cell-haemoglobin C disease followed from birth.
OBJECTIVE: To compare pregnancy outcome in sickle cell-haemoglobin C (SC) disease with that in homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and …
Graham R. Serjeant, Ian Hambleton, Minerva Thame
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Sickle cell disease and age at menarche in Jamaican girls: observations from a cohort study.
AIMS: (1) To investigate the distribution of age at menarche in a representative sample of 99 patients with homozygous sickle cell (SS) …
G. R. Serjeant, A. Singhal, I. R. Hambleton
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Gallstones in sickle cell disease: observations from The Jamaican Cohort study.
The prevalence, incidence, risk factors, clinical associations, and morbidity of gallstones were studied in 311 patients with …
T. M. Walker, I. R. Hambleton, G. R. Serjeant
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Postsplenectomy course in homozygous sickle cell disease.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether children with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and splenectomy are at greater risk of death, …
J. G. Wright, I. R. Hambleton, P. W. Thomas, N. D. Duncan, S. Venugopal, G. R. Serjeant
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