Open Access<p>Macrocytosis among patients with heroin use disorder</p>
Author(s) -
MeiHing Ng,
Vincent ChinHung Chen,
Hua Ting,
Tsang-Yaw Lin,
Sheng-Huang Chang,
Michael Gossop
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s211649
Subject(s) - macrocytosis , medicine , heroin , logistic regression , alcohol use disorder , methadone maintenance , population , psychiatry , univariate analysis , methadone , alcohol , multivariate analysis , drug , environmental health , anemia , biochemistry , chemistry
Few empirical studies have investigated hematological parameters among people with a heroin use disorder. This study explores the prevalence of macrocytosis and associated factors among patients with heroin use disorder who were entering methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Taiwan.