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SUBMITTER: Helegbe GK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10419962 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Helegbe Gideon Kofi GK Wemakor Anthony A Ameade Evans Paul Kwame EPK Anabire Nsoh Godwin NG Anaba Frank F Bautista Jose M JM Zorn Bruno Gonzalez BG
Journal of clinical medicine 20230802 15
During pregnancy, women have an increased relative risk of exposure to infectious diseases. This study was designed to assess the prevalence of the co-occurrence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDd) and sickle cell trait (SCT) and the impact on anemia outcomes among pregnant women exposed to frequent infectious diseases. Over a six-year period (March 2013 to October 2019), 8473 pregnant women attending antenatal clinics (ANCs) at major referral hospitals in Northern Ghana were ...[more]