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national Battalion/Page 13 January 21, 1982 about IQ) centctij h, a gndJ College i manager ol '■ She said)! takingtln g coursei ine levelrr ‘n assigned! 1 pcograi! to learn J * said, "leiil 1, construe basic mad 1'ear of fn- gnprant it >ehind.Tli( idous." er view® ppenattke she hs Institute plans national sickle cell anemia study United Press International WASHINGTON — The Na tional Institute of Health is sponsoring a large, national study to investigate the natural course of sickle cell anemia, the life-shortening blood disease that strikes one of every 500 to 600 American blacks. Dr. Marilyn Gaston, of the sickle cell disease branch at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, said the study is designed to answer some ques tions about what happens to sickle cell victims over periods of years. Besides improving treat ment of sickle cell patients, she said it will provide information on which future research may be based. Even though doctors have known about the disease since the 1940s, they have a poor understanding of its progre ssion from birth to death be cause of the wide variation in its severity and complications. Many victims die early, but others live for decades. This lack of understanding affects treatment of the disease, which is both incurable and in herited, and it means that doc tors are unable to predict the outcome for babies born with sickle cell anemia. “Knowledge of risk factors, rates of progression and the in cidence of complications and the effect on the life of the patient will directly aid physicians in the evaluation and care of sickle cell patients,” Gaston told a recent meeting of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science. In addition, Gaston said, accurate information in the effects of sickle cell anemia on the economic, educational, voca tional, social and psychological status of the patient will provide a Firm basis for making policy decisions concerning the deliv ery of health care and social ser vices to these patients. “Therefore,” she said, “it is anticipated that this collabora tive effort will serve as a major source of data, which will en hance the improvement in the quality of life for patients and families with this illness.” The study involves 23 medical centers across the nation and one statistical coordinating cen ter. A total of 3,535 patients are being studied. They have been divided into four groups — new borns, children up to age 9, those between 10 and 19 and pa tients 20 and older. The plan is to first gather background information on each patient —- including his past medical histories and labor atory reports. Then, each pa tient will be examined routinely every six months. Doctors will monitor any organ damage caused by the disease, and all acute and chroniccomplications will be recorded. The medical centers partici pating in the study are Duke University, Durham, N.C.; the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta; Boston City Hospital; Children’s Hospital of Boston; cago; Wyler Children’s Hospit- Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, a p Chicago; the University of New York, the State LIniversity Mississippi in Jackson; the Uni- of New Yoiks Downstate versity of Tennessee, Memphis; Medical Center in Brooklyn; anc j St. Jude’s Hospital, Mem- Michael Reese Hospital, Chi- phis. 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