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
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• Subjects:
  • Anemia, Sickle Cell
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  California
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered page
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/51959/cdc_51959_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 515.94 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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