Sickle Cell Disease in California: Facts for Providers

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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:
  There were
  
  approximately 5,100
  
  people with SCD living in
  
  California in 2004-2008:
  
  •• 14% younger than
  
  6 years
  
  •• 25% 6-17 years
  
  •• 22% 18-29 years
  
  •• 28% 30-50 years
  
  •• 11% 51 years
  
  and older
  
  There were 486 babies
  
  born with SCD in
  
  •• 89% were Black,
  
  African-American
  
  •• 8% were Hispanic,
  
  Hispanic-American
  
  •• 5% were Other
  
  Note: There is overlap between
  
  the race and ethnicity categories.
  
  SCD affects all races
  
  and ethnic groups. In
  
  California, SCD occurs
  
  among approximately
  
  1 out of every
  
  •• 5,644 live births
  
  •• 452 Black, African-
  
  American, live births
  
  •• 35,454 Hispanic-
  
  American live births
  
  CS244357_B
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anemia, Sickle Cell
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  California
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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