@ARTICLE{Hashemizadeh, author = {Hashemizadeh, H and Noori, R and }, title = {Premarital Screening of Beta Thalassemia Minor in north-east of Iran}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, abstract ={Abstract Background Beta thalassemia is a preventable disease. Iran has about 20,000Patients who are homozygote for β-thalassaemia and 3,750,000 carriers. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of beta thalassemia minor among men who underwent premarital screening in Quchana city in Khorasan Razavi region of Iran Materials and Methods This research is a descriptive cross-sectional study. From 2010 to 2011, all participants (1000) under marriage coming to health center of Quchan underwent routine mandatory tests. Participants were considered to have beta-thalassemia minor on the condition that hey had a mean corpuscular volume (MCV) }, URL = {http://ijpho.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-104-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijpho.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-104-en.pdf}, journal = {Iranian journal of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology}, doi = {}, year = {2013} }