COLUMBIA — The growing number of exercise-induced deaths among athletes with sickle cell trait can be curtailed with proper treatment and greater awareness among team doctors and athletic trainers, a national medical group said in a report released Wednesday.
Greater awareness of genetic trait can curtail athletic deaths, report finds
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | 2:30 p.m. CDT;
updated 12:07 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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