And how long before your doctor tells you about this clinical trial and your kids? 10-20 years?
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/40066?
Only 2 paragraphs here, rest at link.
Publication of the STOP trial, in which long-term blood transfusions
were effective for preventing stroke in children with sickle cell
anemia, was associated with a reduction in the racial disparity in
stroke mortality, researchers found.
Compared with white children, black children had a greater risk of
dying from ischemic stroke both before and after the trial results were
announced, but the relative risk declined from 1.74 (95% CI 1.42-2.13)
to 1.27 (95% CI 0.99-1.64), according to Laura Lehman, MD, of Boston
Children's Hospital, and Heather Fullerton, MD, of the University of
California San Francisco.
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