Mortality Rates and Age at Death from Sickle Cell Disease: U.S., 1979–2005

Lanzkron, Sophie; Patrick Carroll, C.; Haywood, Carlton

doi:10.1177/003335491312800206

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Mortality Rates and Age at Death from Sickle Cell Disease: U.S., 1979–2005

Published in Public Health Reports • Mar 1, 2013

Authors:

Sophie Lanzkron

C. Patrick Carroll

Carlton Haywood

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Improvements in survival for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) during the last 30 years have been well established. Whether similar improvements for adults with the disease have occurred is unknown. We investigated mortality rates for children and adults with SCD. METHODS: We used ...

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Medicine

Mortality rate

Confidence interval

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