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Sickle-cell disease or sickle-cell anaemia is a blood disorder characterized by red blood cells that assume an abnormal, rigid, sickle shape. Sickling decreases the cells' flexibility and results in their restricted movement through blood vessels, depriving downstream tissues of oxygen. The disease is chronic and lifelong: individuals are most often well, but their lives are punctuated by periodic painful attacks and a risk of various other complications. Life expectancy is...


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Sickle cell disease is common in many regions of the world where mosquito-borne malaria is present. It is believed that people who carry only one sickle cell mutation (they do not have the disease) can tolerate malaria better than people who carry no mutations. This may be why the mutation persists in the population despite the high mortality associated with untreated sickle cell disease.

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there is a possibility that a white person will suffer from sickle cell. it's much less then the black community but it can happen. about info- you came to the...

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my uncle is 44 and he has sickle cells but he is still alive i have a cousin who is 20 he has sickle cells its its been hard for...

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Is it possible to be 68 years old and just now be diagnosed with sickle...
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this might be a milder form of sickle cell disease, there are patients who have only few crisis in their whole life while others might need regular transfusion, its very...

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