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Statistics & Worldwide Distribution facts
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Sickle cell disease impacts over 90,000 Americans.
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Sickle cell disease happens in about 1 out of every 500 African-American births.
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Sickle cell disease occurs in about 1 out of every 36,000 Hispanic-American births.
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The trait for sickle cell disease happens in about 1 in 12 African-Americans.
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The trait for sickle cell disease occurs in about 1 in 100 Latinos.
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About 2 million Americans are carriers for the sickle cell trait.
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Sickle cell disease is most common in west and central Africa.
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In the US, around 1,000 babies are born with sickle cell disease every year.
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In Nigeria, around 70,000 babies are born with sickle cell disease every year.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions of people throughout the world and is particularly common among those whose ancestors came from sub-Saharan Africa; Spanish-speaking regions in the Western Hemisphere (South America, the Caribbean, and Central America); Saudi Arabia; India; and Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, Greece, and Italy.
The exact number of people living with SCD in the U.S. is unknown. However, the CDC in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health and 7 states (California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, Michigan and Pennsylvania) are coordinating the Registry and Surveillance System for Hemoglobinopathies(RuSH) project to learn about the number of people living with SCD to better understand how the disease impacts their health.
References:
Biogeography and Ecology of Sickle Cell Anemia. (n.d.). Biogeography and Ecology of Sickle Cell Anemia. Retrieved May 1, 2014, from http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/sicklecell/part3/biogeography.html
SCD Distribution. (n.d.). Nature.com. Retrieved May 1, 2014, from http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n8/full/ncomms1104.html