What you should know about sickle cell disease and pregnancy

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Division of Blood Disorders.
• Description:
  Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic condition that is present at birth. It is inherited when a child receives two sickle cell genes—one from each parent. A person with SCD can pass the disease on to his or her children.
  
  Sickle cell trait (SCT) is not a disease, but means that a person has inherited the sickle cell gene from one of his or her parents. People with SCT usually do not have any of the symptoms of SCD and live a normal life, but they can pass the sickle cell gene on to their children.
  
  • When both parents have SCT, they have a 25% chance of having a child with SCD with every pregnancy.
  
  • When both parents have SCT, they have a 50% chance of having a child with SCT with every pregnancy.
  
  CS216728
  
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  scd-factsheet_scd--pregnancy.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anemia, Sickle Cell Health Promotion Pregnancy
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8488078353b8c9b4159fee7acd75f2d4aa4ac09ffb611eebbb92f6c096914df3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/42384/cdc_42384_DS1.pdf
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