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Sickle cell disease and the need for blood: Barriers to donation for African, Caribbean, and Black young adults in Canadadonorshealth research methodologyBackground Many blood operators around the world face the challenge of increasing the number of donors of African ancestry to meet the transfusion...
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B, Association of sickle cell trait with incidence of any coronary heart disease (CHD). The follow-up periods were 1993 and 1998 to 2014 for the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study, 2003 to 2014 for the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study, 2002 to ...
Background:Persons with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) infected with the SARS CoV-2 virus have significantly increased risks of hospitalization and death and are strongly recommended to be fully vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy has previously been described in the SCD population and uptake of other recommended...
Figure 2. Association Between Hospital Acute Chest Syndrome (ACS) Volume and Antibiotic Use for Children With Sickle Cell Disease Hospitalized With ACS View LargeDownload Proportion of hospitalizations in which a given regimen was used, plotted against hospital total ACS volume for hospitalizations that...
Sickle Cell Disease Association aim to reduce stigma and promote early diagnosis. Moreover, in June 2021, the Fondation Pierre Fabre launched the "E-Drépanocytose" training program for healthcare professionals, designed to improve the recognition and management of SCD. Therefore, this initiative ...
6 Association with malaria The distribution of sickle cell disease parallels that of falciparum malaria in the old world. Infants with sickle cell trait are partially protected against plasmodium faleiparum, so they become infected less frequently and have m~lder infections. ~ Parasitized sickle ...
Abnormal human haemoglobins, I: the comparison of normal human and sickle-cell haemoglobins by fingerprinting. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1958;28(3):539-545. doi:10.1016/0006-3002(58)90516-XPubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 7. Beutler E. The effect of methemoglobin formation in sickle cell disease. ...
Sickle cell disease in California: sociodemographic predictors of emergency department utilization. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2012;58(1):66-73. doi:10.1002/pbc.22979PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 8. Raphael JL, Richardson T, Hall M, et al. Association between hospital volume and within-hospital ...