Sickle Cell Disease in New York: 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
  
  8,374 people with SCD
  
  living in New York in 2004-
  
  2008:
  
  ••40% younger than 21 years
  
  ••46% 21-50 years
  
  ••14% 51 years and older
  
  There were 197 babies
  
  born with SCD in New York
  
  in 2008:
  
  ••Race
  
  οο 89% Black or African-
  
  American
  
  οο 8% White
  
  οο 3% Other/Unknown race
  
  ••Ethnicity
  
  οο 11% Hispanic-American
  
  οο 89% Non-Hispanic
  
  SCD affects all races and
  
  ethnic groups. In New
  
  York, SCD occurs among
  
  approximately 1 out
  
  of every
  
  ••1,259 births
  
  ••260 Black or African-
  
  American births
  
  ••10,209 White births
  
  ••2,714 Hispanic-American
  
  births
  
  CS238867_I
  
  Publication date retrieved from document properties
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anemia, Sickle Cell
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  New York
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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