Differences in the prevalence of growth, endocrine and vitamin D abnormalities among the various thalassaemia syndromes in North America
Differences in the prevalence of growth, endocrine and vitamin D abnormalities among the various thalassaemia syndromes in North America
Maria G. Vogiatzi,1 Eric A. Macklin,2
Felicia L. Trachtenberg,3 Ellen B. Fung,4
Angela M. Cheung,5 Elliott Vichinsky,4
Nancy Olivieri,5 Melody Kirby,6 Janet L.
Kwiatkowski,7 Melody Cunningham,8
Ingrid A. Holm,8 Martin Fleisher,9
Robert W. Grady 1 , Charles M. Peterson
10
and Patricia J. Giardina 1
for the
Thalassemia Clinical Research Network* 1Department of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College
of Cornell, New York, NY, 2Massachusetts General
Hospital Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts
General Hospital and Department of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 3 New
England Research Institutes, Inc., Watertown,
MA, 4 Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA,
USA, 5Department of Medicine, University Health
Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, 6Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON,