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Can you get sickle cell anemia as an adult, but didn't have it as a child or is it a hereditary?
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Hereditary: Sickle cell disease is often diagnosed in newborn period through newborn screening.
Answered 11/4/2020
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Inherited: Sickle cell anemia is hereditary. But it comes in several varieties depending what was inherited from parents. S-s is severe & usually diagnosed in infancy. S-a is carrier state & may go undetected into adulthood. Many variants are possible. This refers to how hemoglobin proteins are manufactured by red cells programmed by genes. See: http://ghr.Nlm.Nih.Gov/condition/sickle-cell-disease.
Answered 9/2/2016
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