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Management of Sickle Cell Disease
1 Apr 1999
Abstract excerpt
One of every 600 black people in the United States has sickle cell anemia. In addition, sickle cell–hemoglobin C disease and sickle cell–β-thalassemia, which are other common genotypes of sickle cell disease, together are as common as sickle cell anemia. Sickle hemoglobin (hemoglobin S, α2 β2S) accounts for over half the hemoglobin in patients with these disorders. Eight percent of black Americans are...
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