{"id":1625,"date":"2021-09-09T14:06:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T09:57:25","slug":"sep2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic Neutropenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haema 2021; 12(1): 3-4
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Konstantinos Liapis<\/p>\n

Consultant Haematologist, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis<\/p>\n

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A relative and absolute neutropenia has been described in black Africans, African Americans, Arabs (Saudi Arabians, Palestinians), and Jewish Yemenites (ethnic or racial neutropenia).1-3<\/sup><\/p>\n

The total body neutrophils have been found to be the same in adults from West Indies living in the UK as in the white Britons, but individuals from West Indies have a greater number of neutrophils in the bone marrow storage pool, while Europeans have more in circulation; provocation of a neutrophil response, either experimentally by exercise or by natural infection, leads to rises to the same level in both races. There is probably a genetic factor underlying ethnic neutropenia, but environmental factors may also play a role since the neutrophil count rises with higher socioeconomic status in Africans, and declines in Europeans living in West Africa.1,3,4<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Note: peripheral blood and bone marrow films of people with ethnic neutropenia are normal.<\/p>\n

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