high risk groups for sickle cell disease
Last reviewed 01/2018
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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