Thalassemia in Malaysia

ZB Alwi, SNRK Syed-Hassan - Hemoglobin, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Malaysia is a multi-ethnic nation, comprising of Malays and other indigenous groups
(67.4%), Chinese (24.6%), Indians (7.3%) and others (0.7%). Thalassemia, which includes α …

Public perceptions and attitudes toward thalassaemia: Influencing factors in a multi-racial population

LP Wong, E George, JAMA Tan - BMC public health, 2011 - Springer
Background Thalassaemia is a common public health problem in Malaysia and about 4.5 to
6% of the Malays and Chinese are carriers of this genetic disorder. The major forms of …

Observational study on the current status of thalassaemia in Malaysia: a report from the Malaysian Thalassaemia Registry

HM Ibrahim, Z Muda, IS Othman, MNM Unni, KH Teh… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Thalassaemia is the most common inherited blood disorder in Malaysia. This
study aims to report the current status of thalassaemia in Malaysia and provide a …

Distribution of alpha thalassaemia gene variants in diverse ethnic populations in Malaysia: data from the Institute for Medical Research

R Ahmad, M Saleem, NS Aloysious… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Alpha thalassaemia is highly prevalent in the plural society of Malaysia and is a public
health problem. Haematological and molecular data from 5016 unrelated patients referred …

High prevalence of alpha‐and beta‐thalassemia in the Kadazandusuns in East Malaysia: Challenges in providing effective health care for an indigenous group

JAMA Tan, PC Lee, YC Wee, KL Tan… - BioMed Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Thalassemia can lead to severe transfusion‐dependent anemia, and it is the most common
genetic disorder in Malaysia. This paper aims to determine the prevalence of thalassemia in …

Detection of Common Deletional Alpha‐Thalassemia Spectrum by Molecular Technique in Kelantan, Northeastern Malaysia

B Rosnah, H Rosline, AW Zaidah… - International …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Thalassemia is a hereditary blood disorder that results from genetic defects causing
deficient synthesis of hemoglobin polypeptide chains. Although thalassemia mostly affects …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular characteristic of alpha thalassaemia among patients diagnosed in UKM Medical Centre

RZ Azma, O Ainoon, A Hafiza, I Azlin… - Malays J …, 2014 - mjpath.org.my
Alpha (α) thalassaemia is the most common inherited disorder in Malaysia. The clinical
severity is dependant on the number of α genes involved. Full blood count (FBC) and …

Alpha‐thalassemia in North Morocco: prevalence and molecular spectrum

A Laghmich, FZ Alaoui Ismaili, A Barakat… - BioMed research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike the other hemoglobinopathies, few researches have been published concerning α‐
thalassemia in Morocco. The epidemiological features and the mutation spectrum of this …

Molecular characterization of α-and β-thalassaemia among Malay patients

NF Mohd Yatim, M Abd. Rahim, K Menon… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Both α-and β-thalassaemia syndromes are public health problems in the multi-ethnic
population of Malaysia. To molecularly characterise the α-and β-thalassaemia deletions and …

Performance studies of ZnO and multi walled carbon nanotubes-based counter electrodes with gel polymer electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cell

JW Chew, MH Khanmirzaei, A Numan, FS Omar… - Materials Science in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Counter electrode (CE) is one of the major component which determine the energy
conversion efficiency of the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Here in, five types of CEs …