Sickle cell trait in African-American dialysis patients affects dosing of anemia medications
Saturday, January 25, 2014 - 20:31
in Health & Medicine
African-American dialysis patients with sickle cell trait received about 13% more of the medications used to treat anemia than other African-American patients to reach the same level of hemoglobin. The sickle cell trait was slightly more common in African-American patients on dialysis (10%) than in the general African-American population (6.5% to 8.7%).