Serum Vitamin E And The Sickling Status In Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia As Seen At Kenyatta National Hospital

dc.contributor.author	Ndombi, IO
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-23T14:22:39Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-23T14:22:39Z
dc.date.issued	1985
dc.identifier.citation	Masters of Medicine (Paediatrics and Child Health)	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/25010
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2282895
dc.description.abstract	In this study, serum vitamin E levels were determined among 62 children with sickle cell anaemia and 35 age- , matched controls. Among the sicklers, the irreversibly sickled cell counts were done and correlated with the serum vitamin E levels. There was a significant difference in serum vitamin E values (P < 0.001). the sickle cell anaemia patients showing tendency to deflciency with 27% of them deficient as against 2.9% of the controls. It was found that the vitamin E deficient sicklers had a significantly higher irreversibly sickled cell counts (P < 0002), indicating that vitamin E is en important inhibitor of the irreversibly sickled cell formation.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Nairobi	en
dc.title	Serum Vitamin E And The Sickling Status In Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia As Seen At Kenyatta National Hospital	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
dc.description.department	a Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
local.publisher	School of Medicine	en