Serum albumin is independently associated with higher mortality in adult sickle cell patients: Results of three independent cohorts

• Mehdi Nouraie ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nouraies@upmc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7465-0581

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• Allison E. Ashley-Koch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Melanie E. Garrett,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Nithya Sritharan,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yingze Zhang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Jane Little,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Victor R. Gordeuk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Mark T. Gladwin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Marilyn J. Telen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Gregory J. Kato

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4465-3217

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