* Spectrum of hemoglobinopathies among the primitive tribes: a multicentric study in India.
- We evaluated the spectrum of hemoglobinopathies among the primitive tribal groups from 4 states in India. A total of 15,200 individuals from 14 primitive tribal groups were studied by automated high-performance liquid chromatography. The hemoglobin S (HbS) allele frequency varied from 0.011 to 0.120 and the β-thalassemia allele frequency from 0.005 to 0.024. It is interesting to note that a very high HbS allele frequency was observed among the Dravidian (0.060-0.120) and Indo-European (0.060-0.076) as compared with Austro-Asiatic (0.011-0.022) speaking tribal groups. Although statistical analysis of the data did not show any ethnic differences within the states, regional differences were observed between the states for both HbS and β-thalassemia traits. HbS was found to be the most common hemoglobinopathy followed by β-thalassemia. A health plan for identifying sickle-cell homozygotes in the neonatal period with proper medical intervention is desirable.
=>健康状態, 健康, 調子
Overview of noun health
The noun health has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (21) health, wellness -- (a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease; "physicians should be
held responsible for the health of their patients")
2. health -- (the general condition of body and mind; "his delicate health"; "in poor health")
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