Global Burden of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Children under Five, 2010–2050: Modelling Based on Demographics, Excess Mortality, and Interventions

Piel, F.; Iain Hay, Simon; Gupta, Sunetra; Weatherall, D.; Williams, T.

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001484

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Global Burden of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Children under Five, 2010–2050: Modelling Based on Demographics, Excess Mortality, and Interventions

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F. Piel

Simon Iain Hay

Sunetra Gupta

Abstract

Frédéric Piel and colleagues combine national sickle cell anemia (SCA) frequencies with projected demographic data to estimate the number of SCA births in children under five globally from 2010 to 2050, and then estimate the number of lives that could be be saved following implementation of specific...

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Medicine

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