@article{Soltani_Hassanipour_Veisani_Darbandi_Rezaiean_2021, title={The Global survival rate of patients with beta thalassemia major: a systematic review and meta-analysis}, volume={7}, url={https://jocms.org/index.php/jcms/article/view/903}, DOI={10.22317/jcms.v7i2.903}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Objectives:</strong> Thalassemia is a public health challenge in the countries entitled belt thalassemia but there is no pooled estimated of the survival rate on thalassemia major patients. The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the pooled 10-, 15-, 20-, and 30-year survival rates of the patients with beta thalassemia major around the world.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A comprehensive literature search of five international databases including Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of knowledge and ProQuest was conducted to identify studies reporting survival rate of beta thalassemia major until March 2020.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>From 714 retrieved studies, seven studies with 8777 subjects included in the meta-analysis. Base on random effect model, the 10-, 15-, 20-, and 30-year survival rates were 98.39, 95.07, 90.41, and 82.93 percent, respectively.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> This meta-analysis provided acceptable results for estimating survival rate of beta-thalassemia compared to other studies. Hence, these results can be effectively used to develop and implement prevention and treatment interventions for policy makers.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences}, author={Soltani, Maryam and Hassanipour, Soheil and Veisani, Yousef and Darbandi, Mitra and Rezaiean, Shahab}, year={2021}, month={Apr.}, pages={80–85} }