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| Title |
Newborn screening: Experiences in the Middle East and North Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, August 2007
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10545-007-0660-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
A. A. Saadallah, M. S. Rashed |
| Abstract |
This review presents the current experiences with newborn screening in the Middle East and North Africa region. The population in the region is about 400 million, with high birth rate and an estimated 10 million newborns per year. The majority of the population is of the Islamic faith and mostly Arab. The population is characterized by a high consanguinity (25-70%) and a high percentage of first-cousin marriages. Haemoglobin disorders, inherited metabolic disorders, neurogenetic disorders and birth defects are relatively common among the population. There is a rather slow progress in developing and implementing preventive genetic programmes owing to legal, cultural, political and financial issues. Although research spending is rather soft in the region, there are numerous pilot studies that highlighted the high incidence of genetic defects and the need for newborn screening programmes. Currently, there are only four countries that are executing national newborn screening but they vary from one disease to 23 and coverage is not complete. The region needs to take big steps towards developing national strategies for prevention and should learn from experiences of regional and international screening programmes. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| India | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 83 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Tunisia | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 81 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 12 | 14% |
| Researcher | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 22% |
| Unknown | 19 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 16% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Unknown | 23 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 October 2018.
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