Cross-sectional prospective feasibility study of newborn screening for sickle cell anaemia and congenital hypothyroidism in Guyana.

Bibi Areefa AlladinPheona Mohamed-RambaranVijay GreyAndrea HunterPranesh ChakrabortyMatthew HendersonJennifer MilburnLaurie Tessier

Published in: BMJ open (2022)

=0.002 CONCLUSION: NBS for CH and SCA in Guyana could be beneficial. Future work should focus on conducting larger pilots which could be used to inform diagnosis and treatment guidelines for Guyanese people.

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