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The Need for Sickle Cell Screening Among Pediatric Latino Immigrants
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156:729.
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At present, 42 states and the District of Columbia include sickle cell
in their neonatal screening panels.1 Additional
screening is not recommended later in life. The recent patterns of immigration
from Central and South America have brought a large population of Latino children
to the United States who have not been screened at birth.
La Clinica del Pueblo is a nonprofit community health center serving
the Latino community in Washington, DC. Sickle cell screening is performed
as a part of a routine health evaluation for immigrant children because the
District of Columbia school system requires the results for school enrollment.
Individuals found to have positive results receive appropriate counseling.
An anonymous medical record abstraction collected data from 300 immigrant
children with a documented complete blood cell count and sickle cell screen.
The sample was approximately 51% male, with the age at the time of screening
distributed as follows: 0 to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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