General Info
The ethnicity that experiences sickle cell anemia most frequently.
True or False: The severity of sickle cell symptoms varies from person to person.
What is true? (Some patients' symptoms are more severe than others).
The change of shape that is looked for when testing for sickle cell.
What are sickled or curved cells?
True or False: Females are more likely to get sickle cell anemia.
What is False? (Both genders are equally susceptible).
The chromosome that sickle cell anemia affects.
What is chromosome 11?
The effects of sickle cell on your respiratory system.
What are shortness of breath and fatigue?
The youngest age you can be tested for sickle cell.
What is 24 to 48 hours old?
Sickle cell occurs in 1 out of every ____ African Americans.
What is 365?
True or False: Sickle cell anemia is a dominant condition.
What is False? (Sickle cell is recessive).
Yellowing of the skin, a symptom of sickle cell, is called this.
What is jaundice?
The time it takes for test results to come back.
What is one day to two weeks?
The percentage of kids (whose parents have the disease) ages 0 to 3 that get sickle cell.
What is 68%?
The name for the blood cell molecule that sickle cell affects.
What is hemoglobin?
Younger people with sickle cell anemia are prone to these.
What are frequent, severe infections?
The area that the sickle cell blood sample is taken.
What is a vein in the arm?
True or False: about 40% of 4 to 9 year olds whose parents are carriers get sickle cell anemia.
What is True?
The organs that are damaged by sickled cells.
What are the lungs, kidneys, spleen, and brain?
High blood pressure in these vessels affects 1/3 of sickle cell sufferers.
What are the blood vessels that supply the lungs?
The treatment for sickle cell anemia.
What is a blood transfusion?
The country that has the most sickle cell cases.
What is Nigeria?