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JAMA. 1970;214(4):749.

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A Special Communication entitled "Health Care Priority and Sickle Cell Anemia" (p 731), by Robert B. Scott, MD, clearly focuses a spotlight on public failure to recognize the importance of combating sickle cell anemia, long a plague to those of African descent (and others). The level of general ignorance concerning the nature of sickle cell anemia remains depressingly high, despite substantial scientific advances in our understanding of the condition. Even more incredible is the fact that very few people in the black population at large have been offered pertinent information about sickle cell anemia and the mode of its transmission.

It is difficult to overstate the need for action at the local, state, and national levels. The carrier trait occurs in 8% to 10% of American Negroes, and about one in 400 suffers the disease from a homozygous state. Sickle cell anemia is one of the most common long-term illness . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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