Table 14.
Summary of other medical comorbidities found in patients with MDS reported in the literature; NR = not reported
| Feature | Males n/N |
Females n/N |
Total n/N (%) |
References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anaemia | 2/11 | NR | 2/11 (18%) | [32, 48] |
| Astigmatism | 2/7 | NR | 2/7 (29%) | [40, 68] |
| Hearing loss | 13/39 | NR | 13/39 (33%) | [1, 2, 8, 9, 32, 40, 77] |
| Hypermetropia | 23/44 | 2/7 | 25/51 (49%) | [12, 25, 26, 74, 77] |
| Hyperbilirubinaemia | 2/9 | NR | 2/9 (22%) | [16, 40] |
| Hypothyroidism | 2/10 | 3/7 | 5/17 (29%) | [25, 32, 43, 53, 71] |
| Obesity | 3/7 | 1/6 | 4/13 (31%) | [16, 25, 74] |
| Thrombocytopaenia | 3/19 | NR | 3/19 (16%) | [17] |