This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

STEVEN O. SCHWARTZ, M.D.; CAPTAIN MAURICE GORE

Arch Intern Med. 1943;72(6):782-785.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Pernicious anemia is said to be rare in Negroes. Our review of the last 1,000 consecutive patients with pernicious anemia who entered the Cook County Hospital contradicts this observation. This study covers the period from 1931 to 1942, during which 93 Negroes were found to have pernicious anemia. An analysis of the results of our review constitutes the subject matter of this paper.

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

One hundred and six cases (5 doubtful) of pernicious anemia in Negroes are reported in the literature. All the reports are by American authors and 14 of the cases have been reported from the Cook County Hospital by Carr¹ and by Traut.² It is noteworthy in this connection that Carr's report, which covered the period from 1912 to 1920, included only 6 cases and Traut's, based on the statistics from 1920 to 1926, only 8. These occurred in a total of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Director of the Hematological Laboratory, Cook County Hospital CHICAGO; MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

From the Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital.

Footnotes
Former Fellow in Hematology, Cook County Hospital.

This work was aided by a grant from The Wilson Laboratories, Chicago.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?