TY  - JOUR
T1  - PErnicious anemia in young black women
AU  - Bash RI
Y1  - 1979/07/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630440087031
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 829
EP  - 829
VL  - 139
IS  - 7
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    Carmel and Johnson1 recently reported that the mean age at initial appearance of pernicious anemia in black women was considerably lower than that of women of European or Latin American origin. Solanki et al2 confirmed this observation in black patients from Washington, DC, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Our own experience confirms this observation.We are observing 12 black women and ten white women with pernicious anemia. The mean age at initial appearance of the two groups was 58.4 years and 71.3 years, respectively. Four of the black women but none of the white women were less than 45 years of age at the time of diagnosis. Whether genetic and/or environmental factors play a role in this racial difference is unknown.
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630440087031
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1979.03630440087031
ER  -