World Sickle Cell Day: Lessons for India

World Sickle Cell Day 2016 : A time for appraisal

sickle cell disease (SCD), a heritable blood disorder with devastating effects, was recognized as a global health problem by the World Health Organization. Two years later, the 63 rd United Nations Assembly designated June 19 as the " World Sickle Cell Day " , in an attempt to improve public awareness of the disease and to improve the prospects for patients. Now in 2016, do we detect any change...

Sickle cell disease in India.

A screening programme involving 9,822 hospitalised patients revealed the frequency of individuals with S gene to be 11.1 per cent. A population survey of 1,000 randomised subjects from amongst about 70,000 people in one block of the area showed the frequency to be 15.1%. The gene is not confined to tribal peoples, but is prevalent throughout the society, being more frequent in scheduled castes ...

Sickle Cell Anæmia in India

کم خونی داسی شکل sickle cell anemia

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Sickle Cell Anaemia in a Changing World

Populations and their health are dynamic. Societal, environmental, and economic changes lead to changes in rates of birth, death, and disease, often described as transitions in mortality, demography, and epidemiology. The notion of epidemiologic transition provides an insight into the relationship between levels of overall mortality and the distribution of its causes [1–3], in which the greates...