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Sickle Cell Disease and Uterine Fibroids: Evaluation of the Prevalence of Fibroids across Sickle Cell Genotypes
2024-03-08
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Introduction</h4> Uterine fibroids are known to affect >80% of premenopausal American women of African descent, and sickle cell disease is known to disproportionately affect people of varying geographical ancestries, particularly those of sub-Saharan African descent. However, previous studies have suggested the two pathologies less frequently co-occur. This study aims to evaluate the prevalen...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 870e2be4-0cf3-51b2-8e11-1709ab639724
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.03.07.24303932
