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Incidental Finding of Sickle Cell Trait From an Everyday Diabetes Test: Should General Health Care Providers and testing centres report, retest, or refer?
(American Diabetes Association, 2019-09-17)
The HbA1c test is increasingly widely used as a diagnostic and screening test for diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) but the presence of haemoglobin variants, such as sickle haemoglobin, can interfere with results in some ...
Sickle cell, habitual dyspositions and fragile dispositions: young people with sickle cell at school.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03-04)
The experiences of young people living with a sickle cell disorder in schools in England are reported through a thematic analysis of forty interviews, using Bourdieu’s notions of field, capital and habitus. Young people ...
The feasibility of using ethnicity as a primary tool for antenatal selective screening for sickle cell disorders: pointers from the research evidence
(Elsevier, 2003)
The Department of Health has announced a linked antenatal and neonatal screening programme for haemoglobinopathies by 2004 in a comprehensive national plan for the National Health Service in Britain. In response the National ...
Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences: Health, Racism and Disablement
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2019-04-15)
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe chronic illness and one of the world’s most common genetic conditions, with 400,000 children born annually with the disorder, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Brazil, the Middle ...
'Race', ethnicity and haemoglobin disorders
(Elsevier, 1998)
The new genetics has brought forth concerns that such developments as screening for genetic
diseases will accentuate the oppression of minority ethnic groups [Bradby (1996) Genetics and racism.
In The Troubled Helix: ...
Knowledge of sickle cell in a screened population
(Blackwell, 1997)
The aim of this study is to begin to assess the awareness and knowledge of
sickle-cell amongst carriers and non-carriers in a screened population of
primarily African-Caribbean descent. A structured questionnaire
containing ...
Sickle cell and thalassaemia: global public health issues come of age.
(Taylor and Francis, 2011-08)
It is with great pleasure that, as guest and current editor respectively, we introduce Ethnicity and Health’s collection on the haemoglobin disorders sickle cell and thalassaemia. Sickle cell and thalassaemia are among ...
Black community members as researchers: two projects compared.
(Ashgate, 1998)
Barriers and Enablers to Employment: Black Disabled Peoples Living with Sickle Cell Disorder Project.
(De Montfort University, 2019-02-01)
Final report of the Barriers and Enablers to Employment: Black Disabled Peoples Living with Sickle Cell Disorder Project.
