Body mass index in alpha thalassemias

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SUMMARY Body mass in alPha thalassemias are the second most common caAfter the iron deficiency anemia, thalassemias

usesofmicrocyticanemias.Wetriedtounderstandpossibleeffectsofalphatha-per(BMl) in the present study' The study was lassemias on the body mass index

formedintheHematologyPolycliniconroutinecontrolpatients.Patientswithdevastatingillnesseswereexcludedtoavoidtheirpossibleeffectsonweight'Alpha age and sex-matched contcases were collected into the first' and thalassemia

groups' ant they were compared accorrol cases were collected into the second

and BMI' Mann-Whitney U and lndepending to the mean body weight, height'

dent-SamplesTtestsWereusedasthemethodsofstatisticalanalyses.Thestudy included34alphathalassemia(23females)and66controlcases(45females)'to-

tally.FivecaseswithHbHdisease(14'7%\weredetectedamongthealphathatha-

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p= 0'000) and mean corpuscular volume mean hematocrit (30'5 versus 40'3%' p= 0'000) in the alpha thalassemia cases' the (MCV) values (62'5 versus 85'2 fL' were similar in both groups (p >0'05 for all)' mean body weight, height, and BMI in .14 cases (41 .1%) with additionar iron deficiency on the other hand, there were

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