Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease after Age of 40: Follow-Up of a Cohort of 209 Patients in Senegal, West Africa

Table 5

Risk factors for death in SCD patients.

Parameters	Deceased patients (n = 17)	Living patients (n = 131)	P
Origin
Dakar	5 (29.4%)	70 (53.4%)	0.049
Others	12 (70.6%)	61 (46.6%)
Comorbidities	4 (23.5%)	18 (13.7%)	0.008
Mean HbS rate	90.2 ± 5.9	86.2 ± 10.2	0.019
Mean HbF rate	6.2 ± 6.0	9.7 ± 7.7	0.035
Mean platelet count	356900 ± 90864.3	394239.2 ± 165565.1	0.023