Table 2.
Number of cases and mean age at diagnosis of sickle cell anemia in immigrants, 1987–2010.
| Birth country | Men |
Women |
All |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Mean age (years) | No. | Mean age (years) | No. | Mean age (years) | |
| Swedish | 164 | 41.7 | 182 | 49.5 | 346 | 45.8 |
| Nordic countries | 4 | 42.5 | 11 | 54.4 | 15 | 51.2 |
| Denmark | 2 | 9.0 | 2 | 30.0 | 4 | 19.5 |
| Finland | 2 | 76.0 | 9 | 59.8 | 11 | 62.7 |
| Southern Europe | 1 | 74.0 | 2 | 47.0 | 3 | 56.0 |
| Greece | 1 | 74.0 | 0 | 1 | 74.0 | |
| Other Southern European countries | 0 | 2 | 47.0 | 2 | 47.0 | |
| Western Europe | 4 | 57.0 | 4 | 55.0 | 8 | 56.0 |
| The Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 68.0 | 1 | 68.0 | |
| England–Ireland | 3 | 53.0 | 2 | 40.0 | 5 | 47.8 |
| Germany | 1 | 69.0 | 1 | 72.0 | 2 | 70.5 |
| Eastern Europe | 3 | 54.3 | 4 | 64.5 | 7 | 60.1 |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 54.3 | 1 | 72.0 | 4 | 58.8 |
| Croatia | 0 | 1 | 60.0 | 1 | 60.0 | |
| Poland | 0 | 2 | 63.0 | 2 | 63.0 | |
| Africa | 45 | 25.2 | 83 | 26.3 | 128 | 25.9 |
| North Africa | 2 | 34.0 | 0 | 2 | 34.0 | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 43 | 24.8 | 83 | 26.3 | 126 | 25.8 |
| North America | 4 | 28.0 | 1 | 2.0 | 5 | 22.8 |
| Latin America | 1 | 33.0 | 4 | 33.3 | 5 | 33.2 |
| Chile | 1 | 33.0 | 0 | 1 | 33.0 | |
| Asia | 30 | 24.1 | 27 | 30.3 | 57 | 27.0 |
| Turkey | 1 | 60.0 | 2 | 14.0 | 3 | 29.3 |
| Lebanon | 5 | 27.6 | 8 | 34.0 | 13 | 31.5 |
| Iran | 3 | 42.0 | 2 | 25.5 | 5 | 35.4 |
| Iraq | 14 | 16.8 | 8 | 31.5 | 22 | 22.1 |
| Syria | 2 | 7.5 | 0 | 2 | 7.5 | |
| India | 2 | 9.0 | 2 | 10.0 | 4 | 9.5 |
| Russia | 0 | 1 | 65.0 | 1 | 65.0 | |
| Others | 4 | 31.3 | 5 | 35.8 | 9 | 33.8 |
| All | 260 | 36.9 | 324 | 41.8 | 584 | 39.6 |