Table 1.
Distribution of patients characteristics and hospital admissions in patients with SCD admitted to a public university hospital, southeastern Brazil, 2000–2004
| Patients Characteristics | Frequency (%) |
| N = 71 | |
| Sex | |
| Male | 36 (50,7) |
| Female | 35 (49,3) |
| Phenotype | |
| SS | 57 (80,3) |
| Others | 14 (19,7) |
| Ethnicity | |
| White | 14 (19,7) |
| Non-white | 57 (80,3) |
| Education | |
| Elementary school | 41 (57,7) |
| Other | 30 (42,3) |
| Hospital admissions | |
| N = 223 | |
| Vaso-occlusive crisis | 163 (73,1) |
| Acute chest syndrome | 17 (7,6) |
| Bacterial infection | 64 (28,7) |
| Chronic renal failure | 11 (4,9) |
| Opiate use | 188 (84,3) |