Admission of Hb S heterozygotes to a general hospital is relatively reduced in malarial areas.
AUTOR(ES)
Colombo, B
RESUMO
A comparison between the frequency of Hb S heterozygotes in blood donors, outpatients, and inpatients of a general hospital carried out at the Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique, where Plasmodium falciparum malaria is endemic, showed a statistically significant lower percentage of Hb S heterozygotes in the inpatient group. Evidence is thus provided that the protection given by Hb S to heterozygotes concerns not only malarial infection itself, but probably a wide spectrum of diseases to which persons who have a special resistance to P falciparum infection are less prone.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1049451Documentos Relacionados
- Appropriate measures of hospital market areas.
- Local markets and systems: hospital consolidations in metropolitan areas.
- Alcoholism in rural areas: biographical situation of relatives of patients admitted to a general hospital
- Explaining variation in hospital admission rates between general practices: cross sectional study
- MALARIAL THERAPY IN GENERAL PARALYSIS