Sickle

Sickle Cell Anemia is an inherited trait from a parent that causes victims to have their blood cells turn into sickle looking shapes. Their many names or it including HbS disease Hemoglobin S disease, Hemoglobin SS disease. To get this disease, the offspring has to to get the trait from both the mom and dad in order to have it. You can’t get it like the flu, you can only get by inheriting it. There are prenatal tests for Sickle Cell Anemia which means they test babies before they are born with…

Sickle cell disease is a genetic condition that some people inherit from their parents, people with this disease have abnormal hemoglobin in their red blood cells. Sickle cells are C-shaped and they can get stuck in the walls of small blood vessels, which cause them to stick together and form clumps inside the blood vessels. These clumps can cause many severe health issues, for example, someone with this disease has a higher chance of a having a stroke. Normal red blood cells are like disc…

Research for Sickle Cell Disease started in 1910.When a patient from the West Indies had anemia characterized by oddly shaped red blood cells. A Chicago physician, James B. Herrick identified the red blood cells as sickled shaped. It was discovered that the sickling of the cells was associated with the low oxygen in 1927 by Hahn and Gillespie. A medical student at John Hopkins, Sherman, noticed the birefringence of deoxygenated red blood cells, recommended that low oxygen adjusted the hemoglobin…

More than 80,000 Americans have been struggling with Sickle Cell Disease (Bennett). Including 1 in 375 African-Americans. When I first heard this number, it was shocking to me. I thought sickle cell was a really rare disease. But then I did the research and found out more. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells, causing them to change the normal disc shape to a sickle shape (Bennett). Sickle Cell Disease Association of America estimates that 70,000…

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disorder of the hemoglobin in our blood. What happens is the red blood cells are abnormally shaped (like a crescent), and they become blocked in the blood vessels, blocking blood flow and oxygen to all the parts of the body. Our blood cells are normally round and flexible which allows for a smooth flow of blood through our bodies, but with sickle cell anemia, this isn’t the case. In this paper we will be looking at a history of sickle cell anemia, who it effects…

hypotheses for the sickle gene cell. However, those hypotheses limit in explaining the entirety for the frequency of the HbS allele in human populations around the globe. The complex relationship between the HbS allele frequencies and the level of malaria prevalence support the malaria hypothesis at a global scale and further demonstrate why adaptation or natural selection alone cannot be the factor in explaining allele frequencies. According to Piel et. al. (2010), HbS, known as the sickle…

for females with sickle cell anemia is 48 years. Since both my client’s parents has the sickle cell gene, 25 percent of infants with both parents having the gene will inherit it. Statistics showed that the intake of vitamins E and D, folate, calcium, and fiber as %DRI was lower for children of all ages; also, they are the nutrients of most concern. The Intake of vitamin C, protein, vitamin B-12, riboflavin, and magnesium becomes lower and lower with age. Infants with sickle cell need to…

one time, Sickle Cell was seen as a great mutation. Soon, that great mutation became deadly. Being the first genetic disorder with a molecular basis that was known, Sickle Cell is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. Sickle Cell is more than just one disease. There are three types: trait, anemia, and the actual disease. Sickle Cell trait is present when only one gene of the disorder is inherited. In people with the trait, Hemoglobin S is heterozygous. Sickle Cell…

Sickle Cell Anemia is an inherited blood disorder of the red blood cells, which is passed down through families. Sickle cell anemia primarily affects people with African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Indian ancestry. About 70,000 children are affected with sickle cell anemia because it directly attacks their gene, it is prevalent in African-American and millions of people carry the gene. There are different types of sickle cell disease, People who inherit two sickle cell genes, one from…

Sickle cell disease or sickle cell anemia is basically a disease that is hereditary blood disorder that is characterized through red blood cells. It affects the hemoglobin that has to put oxygen into the red blood cells. Since it affects that it is formed into a sickle shape and can cause massive amounts of damage if not cured. A young High school Student describes his experience with having sickle cell anemia and says that he could not imagine life without pain all the time. When Noah was 15…