17, 2025 — A new study has found older-looking brains in adults with sickle cell disease ... a mechanism in which blood stem cells respond to acute, severe anemia, through lipoprotein metabolism ...

Notably, sickle cell anemia was the first genetic disease ... year old college student who was severely anemic. A smear of this patient's blood showed that "the shape of the red cells was very ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

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Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Individuals with SCT have one copy of the gene associated with sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD is a blood disorder characterized by misshapen blood cells that can cause blockages, leading to ...

According to the American Heart Association, about 55% of Black adults have high blood pressure. African Americans are also at risk for a certain type of anemia called sickle cell anemia.

Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder characterised by the production of an abnormal haemoglobin, known as haemoglobin S. Sickle cell disease changes the shape of blood cells into a crescent ...

There will be a blood drive for sickle cell disease – the most common inherited blood disorder – this weekend in South Jersey ...

Sickle cell is a genetic blood disorder which turns healthy round blood cells a crescent moon – or sickle – shape. Symptoms include severe episodes of pain (known as a crisis), severe ...

(HealthDay News) — Adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and healthy controls with greater economic deprivation have older brain age, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in JAMA Network Open.