Research Article
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 |
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