… We show that child mortality associated with sickle cell anaemia in west and central Africa is
… 5·35 times higher than the mortality of children without sickle cell anaemia living in the same …

… anemia as a risk factor for child deaths include the following: 1) the proportion of child deaths
attributable to anemia; … % of child deaths occurred in children with sickle cell anemia and in …

… included only subjects with sickle-cell disease, tuberculosis, hemoglobinopathies, cancer, …
Our finding of a higher risk of death among children who were not transfused vs. transfused …

Sickle cell disease refers to a heterogeneous group of inherited blood disorders characterized
by the predominance of sickle hemoglobin (HbS). The most severe form of sickle cell …

… Evidence of raised mortality has been reported in some … SCD mortality; (2) to assess the
available data on child survival … cell disease is an important but largely neglected risk to child …

… Together, these changes can cause acute pain and organ damage, and can increase the
risk of … Recent improvements in overall infant and childhood survival in these countries and …

… Results In adjusted models, a 1-cm increase in maternal height was associated with a
decreased risk of child mortality (relative risk [RR], 0.978; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.970-0.987…

… had on average the same mortality risk, regardless of which sibling-group label category
they were assigned to, and likewise for all genotypes, we estimated that the group of …

… To investigate the relation between age and the risk of death in sickle cell disease, we
analyzed the data according to decade of age and calculated the probability of surviving each …

… Here, we report the rate and risk factors of mortality in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. … We
identified risk factors for mortality, which should allow targeting of interventions to high risk patients. …