Background: Over the last 10 years, we have investigated thalassemia patients in Jakarta to obtain a comprehensive picture of iron overload, oxidative stress, and cell damage. Methods: In blood samples from 15 transfusion-dependent patients (group T), 5 non-transfused patients (group N) and 10 controls (group C), plasma lipids and lipoproteins, lipid-soluble vitamin E, malondialdehyde (MDA) …
The growing number of vehicles in Semarang city has great potentiality toward air pollution that will affecting people’s health. The health impact of lead ex-posure may in the forms of hypertension, anaemia, brain function degradation, and red cell formation inhibition. The study was aimed to understand the correlation between lead level in blood and haemoglobin and erythrocytes based on…