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Oxidant-antioxidant status in Egyptian children with sickle cell anemia: a single center based study.

Authors: El-Ghamrawy, MK  Hanna, WM  Abdel-Salam, A  El-Sonbaty, MM  Youness, ER  Adel, A 
Citation: El-Ghamrawy MK, etal., J Pediatr (Rio J). 2014 May-Jun;90(3):286-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jped.2013.09.005. Epub 2014 Feb 5.
RGD ID: 11553835
Pubmed: PMID:24508012   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.jped.2013.09.005   (Journal Full-text)

OBJECTIVE: the present study was conducted to investigate the oxidant-antioxidant status in Egyptian children with sickle cell anemia. METHODS: the serum levels of total antioxidant capacity (TAO), paraoxonase (PON), vitamin E, nitrite, and malondialdehyde (MDA) were measured in 40 steady state children with homozygous sickle cell anemia (24 males and 16 females) and 20 apparently healthy age- and gender-matched controls. RESULTS: mean serum TAO, PON, vitamin E, and nitrite levels were significantly lower in the group with sickle cell anemia, whereas mean serum MDA was significantly higher in these children compared to controls. No significant differences in mean levels of TAO, PON, nitrite, vitamin E, and MDA were found in sickle cell anemia patients receiving hydroxyurea when compared with those not receiving hydroxyurea. A significant negative correlation between serum nitrite and the occurrence of vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) was observed (r=-0.3, p=0.04). PON level was found to be positively correlated with patients' weight and BMI (r=-0.4, p=0.01; r=-0.7, p<0.001, respectively), but not with frequency of VOC. The area under the curve of serum nitrite in predicting occurrence of VOC was 0.782, versus 0.701 for PON, and 0.650 for TAO (p=0.006). Serum MDA was not correlated with nitrite, PON, TAO, or vitamin E levels. No significant correlations were detected between serum nitrite and hemoglobin or antioxidant enzymes. CONCLUSION: children with sickle cell anemia have chronic oxidative stress that may result in increased VOC, and decreased serum nitrite may be associated with increases in VOC frequency. A novel finding in this study is the decrease in PON level in these patients, which is an interesting subject for further research.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
sickle cell anemia  IEP 11553835protein:decreased activity: serum (human)RGD 
sickle cell anemia  ISOPON1 (Homo sapiens)11553835; 11553835protein:decreased activity: serum (human)RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Pon1  (paraoxonase 1)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Pon1  (paraoxonase 1)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
PON1  (paraoxonase 1)


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