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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 4.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Hematol. 2010 May;85(5):367–370. doi: 10.1002/ajh.21670

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Bodily pain: thalassemia cohort by country versus U.S. norms. (A) Adults (Bodily pain (BP) scale of the SF-36v2 quality of life health survey compared with U.S. adult norms [16]. Higher scores indicate higher QOL (i.e., less pain). There are no normed data available for age <18.). (B) Children (Bodily pain (BP) scale of the PF-28 child health questionnaire (CHQ) compared with U.S. pediatric norms [17]. Higher scores indicate higher QOL (i.e., less pain).). As norms differ by culture, only thalassemia patients in North America are compared with U.S. norms; age trends are similar for patients in the U.K., but scores are consistently lower than in the North American group.