Question: how long can a person with sickle cell disease live?
Answer: Life expectancy One often used as a baseline is the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1994. This study monitored patients in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and estimated the median life expectancy of women with sickle cell anemia to 48 years and men 42 years.