From 2004 to 2010, there were 335,348 Medicaid-enrolled
women whose race was reported as black and who had a
delivery admission; of those, 1,526 (0.5 %) had a diagnosis
of SCD. Among black women without SCD (n = 333,822),
6.6 % had one or more chronic conditions associated with
multi-organ failure. Overall, women with SCD tended to be
younger than those without SCD, but the difference was
more pronounced among those with chronic conditions
(Table 1). Approximately 3 % of women with SCD had a
multiple birth compared with about 2 % of women in either
comparison group