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Atreyu is one of about 72,000 Americans with sickle cell anemia, which is particularly common among people whose ancestors come from sub-Saharan Africa, Spanish-speaking regions, Saudi Arabia, India, and Mediterranean countries. Sickle cell anemia patients have 600 times the risk for invasive pneumococcal disease than their healthy peers. After 6 months, blood pressure in the lungs of sickle cell patients receiving the drug had eased by an average of 18 percent. |
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