Statewide Academic Performance of High School Students With Sickle Cell Disease (2025)

CERP³ contributors: Kelly Harris

A. M.Heitzer, M.Ray, A.Wiese, K. Harris, et al. “Statewide Academic Performance of High School Students With Sickle Cell Disease.” Pediatric Blood & Cancer72, no. 10 (2025): 72, e31947. https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.31947

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Among patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), poor academic attainment in adolescence is associated with a greater frequency of acute care visits and a poorer health-related quality of life in adulthood. We compared the academic performance of high school students with SCD to students without SCD after controlling for race and sex.