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Sickle cell, thalassemia, and heat: risk estimates and equity policy considerations from an exploratory timeseries study in California
2024-10-16
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> People born with hemoglobinopathies, such as sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia, as well as people who are carriers for these disorders [sickle cell trait (SCT), thalassemia trait or thalassemia minor (TM)], may experience increased symptom-triggers and related illnesses from heat because their cells are susceptible to dehydration. Additionally, historical, and structur...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7a650a88-e37e-557b-a55a-5c7d440e0ade
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.10.15.24315547
