Biology
Cells affected by SCA
What are red blood cells?
The most common symptom of SCA.
What is acute anemia?
This organization has provided over 138,000 sickle cell screenings to date.
What is the Red Cross?
The most common way to help people with sickle cell anemia.
What are blood donations?
The hemoglobin that is affected by SCA
What is hemoglobin S?
This is caused by the same symptoms that are used to diagnose SCA.
What is pain?
90% of all affected individuals come from this ethnic background.
What is African American?
This ensures that appropriate medical information is shared with families.
What is advocacy?
How this condition is passed
What is the autosomal recessive inherited disorder?
These communities are disproportionately impacted by SCA.
What is African American/Latin/Mediterranean?
The number of people affected by Sickle Cell Anemia in the U.S.
What is 100,000 people?
Establishing this is very important, especially in African American communities because of the disproportionate number of SCA patients in this community.
What is a donor match?
The purpose of hemoglobin
What carries O2?
The most threatening symptom of SCA
What are strokes?
The number of Americans who have the sickle cell trait (hint: this is different from the amount who have sickle cell anemia)
What is 1-3 million Americans?
The Red Cross’s role in helping those with SCA
What is collecting and distributing blood to medical centers?
The 3 medications for SCA
What are blood transfusions, gene therapy, and stem cell therapy?
Blood vessels for people with SCA
What are blocked blood vessels?
If both parents carry the sickle cell trait, a person will have this percentage chance of inheriting sickle cell anemia.
What is 25%? (1 in 4)
An incredibly important part of blood donation for patients
What is a donor match?