Temporal patterns of haemoglobin phenotypes among Nigerian university students based on ten years of surveillance data
Thomas Olumide Adeleke, Chukwudumebi Placid Ughonu, Efeturi Agelebe, Oludamola Victoria Adeleke, Taiwo Omotayo Dosumu, Dolapo Emmanuel Ajala, Bayonle Ayenigba, Samuel Ademola Adegoke, Tina M. Slusher, Alexander A. Boucher · 2026
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Thomas Olumide Adeleke and nine colleagues mine ten years of screening records to track haemoglobin types among Nigerian university students. Inherited haemoglobin disorders, sickle cell disease above all, weigh heavily on health systems in the region. The 2026 study extracted 8,890 records from annual undergraduate screening at Bowen University Hospital in Iwo, covering 2015 to 2024. Machine learning helped clean and analyse the archive across regions and demographic groups.
The normal genotype, HbAA, dominated at 75.11 percent of students. Sickle cell genotypes together held near 1.2 percent all decade, with a slight downward drift that statistics could not confirm. Carrier types stayed stable too. The authors are careful about reach: admitted students are healthier and better educated than the general public, so the figures describe that slice of Nigeria only. Even so, a decade of steady institutional screening shows how a university can anchor surveillance and health education.
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| CREATOR | Thomas Olumide Adeleke, Chukwudumebi Placid Ughonu, Efeturi Agelebe, Oludamola Victoria Adeleke, Taiwo Omotayo Dosumu, Dolapo Emmanuel Ajala, Bayonle Ayenigba, Samuel Ademola Adegoke, Tina M. Slusher, Alexander A. Boucher |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25174 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |