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Article: Smoking out sickle cell.(The Beat)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have found that children with sickle cell disease who were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) at home had more than twice as many episodes of pain (known as "crises") as sickle cell patients who were not exposed. Sickle cell crises involve vaso-occlusive pain, acute chest syndrome, and ...