Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of sickle cell disease patients from a low-income region of northeastern Brazil by Thales Allyrio Araújo de Medeiros Fernandes, Tereza Maria Dantas de Medeiros, Jayra Juliana Paiva Alves, Christiane Medeiros Bezerra, José Veríssimo Fernandes, Édvis Santos Soares Serafim, Maria Zélia Fernandes, Maria de Fatima Sonati

“…Results: The patients were predominantly younger than 12 years old, self-declared as mulatto, lived in small towns fairly distant from the referral center, and had low education and socioeconomic levels. …”
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