The nurse instructs the 20-year-old female patient with sickle cell trait that:
a. the condition will evolve into sickle cell anemia as she ages.
b. all of her children will have sickle cell anemia.
c. the trait will be transmitted to male child-ren only.
d. the trait can be passed on to all children.
D
A person who has the trait can pass it on to male or female children, even if there are no symp-toms. Fifty percent of the patient's total hemoglobin may be affected. Age does not increase the chance of the trait evolving into the disease.
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