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The drug. Hydroxyurea, usually given tor the treatment
and cancer, may reduce pain and lower death rates anwt
who sutler from sickle cell anemia, according to a
CHICAGO — A drug that reduces the dis
abling pain of sickle cell anemia can also signifi
cantly lower death rates and should be used by
many more patients with the blood disorder,
researchers say.
The drug, hydroxyurea, is more often associat
ed with cancer and AIDS treatments and most
sickle cell patients who need it aren’t getting it,
said Dr. Duane Bonds of the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute.
In a government-funded study of adult sickle
cell patients co-authored by Bonds, those who
used hydroxyurea capsules at least periodically for
nine years were 40 percent less likely to die dur
ing the study than those who never used the drug.
“Now there is new hope for these patients, who
typically die 10 to 15 years earlier than patients
with milder cases,” said Dr. Claude Lenfant, the
institute director.
The study appears in Wednesday’s Journal of
the American Medical Association. It covered 299
patients, but complete data was only recorded for
233 of them. Complete data were available for 233
of the 299 participants.
Sickle cell anemia, an inherited blood disorder,
affects about 72,000 Americans, mostly blacks.
Patients have defective hemoglobin, oxygen-car
rying blood protein, which causes deformed red
blood cells that can clog vessels. This deprives
organs and tissues of adequate blood supply, caus
ing severe pain.
There were 13 deaths among the 36 patients
who never took hydroxyurea, compared with 21
deaths among the 106 patients who took the drug
throughout the nine-year period. The 40 percent
difference was calculated using an average of
death rates for every three-month period in the
study, Bonds said.
Follow-up research shows the benefits extend
to prolonging life in moderately to severely affect
ed patients, who make up some 30 percent of sick
le cell patients, said Dr. Martin Steinberg of
Boston University, the lead researcher. Most are
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