Study shows ways to limit stroke risk in young Sickle Cell patients
January 7, 2014; Posted by: WeBleed staff
Yale University study explains how to limit stroke risk in children with sickle cell anemia.
According to a release posted on Futurity, a new study shows that young children with the blood disorder sickle cell anemia can be protected from potential vascular clots and strokes.
“Our findings strongly suggest that NPP1 inhibitors would confer some level of stroke protection to patients at risk for thrombotic stroke, especially to children with sickle cell anemia in whom the NPP1 variation was identified,” says Demetrios Braddock, associate professor of pathology at Yale School of Medicine and senior author of the study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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