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,