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Cardiovascular System
Thalassemia
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Jun
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If you have thalassemia, your body has problems making hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen through your body.
Also called: Cooley’s anemia, Mediterranean anemia
• If you have thalassemia, your body has problems making hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen through your body. When your blood does not carry enough oxygen to the rest of your body, you have anemia.
• Thalassemia, a genetic disease, can be mild or severe. Some carriers of the gene have no symptoms. The most common severe form in the United States is a type called Cooley’s anemia. It mainly affects people of Mediterranean or Asian ancestry. It usually appears during the first two years of life. Severe thalassemia is treated with blood transfusions and treatment to remove excess iron in the blood.