Reducing Your Risk of Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is passed through genes. If someone gets the faulty gene from each parent, there is no way to reduce the risk.

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Last reviewed March 2020 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Marcin Chwistek, MD