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Prologue: World Health Concerns

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The enormous number of cases of hyperbilirubinemia worldwide can hardly be estimated. The World Health Organization estimates the number of people worldwide who have glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) deficiency at 400 million. G-6-PDH deficiency is the disorder that contributes the largest number of jaundiced newborn infants.

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McCandless, D.W. (2011). Prologue: World Health Concerns. In: Kernicterus. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6555-4_1

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