Survival in adults with sickle cell disease in a high-income setting

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To the editor: Survival of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) in high-income countries has improved greatly in the last 60 years. In 1960, it was described as a “disease of childhood”[1][1] whereas 25 years later, the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease reported that 85% of hemoglobin

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