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High risk groups for sickle cell disease

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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The following ethnic groups of people have a clinically significant prevalence of haemoglobin S (1):

  • African people, including North Africans

  • African - Caribbean people

  • African - American people

  • people from Saudi Arabia

  • Africo-Caribbean British people or any other people of African ethnicity from Central or South America

  • people from Greece

  • people from India

  • people from southern Italy, including Sicilians

  • people from Turkey (1)

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