04/10/2018
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"I too want to thank you, Chairman Pitts, for holding this important hearing on reauthorizing important programs to combat the sickle cell disease and on improving diabetes awareness and care."
"Sickle cell disease and diabetes disproportionately affect African American citizens, including many in my congressional district in North Carolina."
"That black children, African American children, have higher rates of disease."
"A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the median age for men with SCD is only 42 years old. For women, it is 48 years."