Sickle Cell Anemia in an Arab Bedouin Village in the Northern Israel

HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sickle Cell Disease

Treatments: Procedure: Medical history and basic laboratory analysis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00481039

5311006.EMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sickle cell anemia and sickle cell thalassemia are frequent diseases among the israeli arab population. The purpose of this study is to assess the clinical characteristics of the patients in one arab village and the laboratory characteristics in the carriers of this gene based in the screening for pregnant women that is carried out in the population of northern Israel.

The results can be useful in order to institute universal screening for sickle cell anemia in northern Israel.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All the patients that were diagnosed as having sickle cell disease in the specific village and all the population screened for hemoglobinopathies in the same location

Trial design

300 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

Patients diagnosed as having abnormal hemoglobin like hemoglobin S and thalassemia in a bedouin village

Treatment:

Procedure: Medical history and basic laboratory analysis