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Sickle cell disease can be deadly, and the persistent health inequities facing Black Americans worsen the problem

  • Written by Diana J. Wilkie, Professor of Nursing, University of Florida
Sickle cell disease can be deadly, and the persistent health inequities facing Black Americans worsen the problemMore than 93% of Americans hospitalized for sickle cell disease are Black. SeventyFour/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The pain from a heart attack is so bad that – if you can imagine – it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of...

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