Sickle cell disease—global mortality burden is nearly 11 times higher than recorded (IMAGE)

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Sickle cell disease—global mortality burden is nearly 11 times higher than recorded

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A Lancet study—the first to estimate the full global mortality burden of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)—has revealed a strikingly high contribution of SCD to all-cause mortality that is not apparent when each death is assigned to only a single cause.

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