Medical aspects of sickle hemoglobin in military personnel.
The Department of Defense (DOD) will soon issue a directive to test all incoming military personnel for the presence of hemoglobin S. The military testing program for hemoglobin S is an occupational medicine program. This report includes a discussion of armed services physical standards, a description of the Navy effort to evaluate an automated system for detection of hemoglobin S, and the proposed DOD directive.
D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell; D044383:Black People; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000592:standards; D012805:Sickle Cell Trait; D014481:United States; D001741:Black or African American