Affiliations:
1Section of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics,
Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
2Section of Hematology-Oncology, Department of
Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen,
Thailand
3Section of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology,
Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
4Division of Endocrinology, Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.Address all correspondence to:
Pattara Wiromrat, M.D., 123 Section of Endocrinology, Department of
Pediatrics, Khon Kaen University, Mitraparp Highway, Khon Kaen, Thailand
40002
Email: patwiro@kku.ac.th;
Phone: +66 86 716 8485; Fax: +66 43 363 012
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Running title: Bone mass and dickkopf-1 in α-thalassemia
Keywords: α-thalassemia, Adolescents, Bone mineral density,
Dickkopf-1, Non-deletional hemoglobin H disease
Note: Part of this study was presented as a poster presentation
at the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology 2022 meeting in
Rome, Italy, 15-17 September 2022 (published in Horm Res Paediatr
2022;95(suppl 2):1-616. doi: 10.1159/000525606)