Patients from the general population without hemolytic anemia were matched 10 to 1 to patients with PK deficiency on the basis of age, gender, and year of enrollment in the PK Deficiency Natural History Study (NHS).*
The Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency Natural History Study was funded by Agios Pharmaceuticals.
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ERT=ever regularly transfused, NRT=never regularly transfused, NT=never transfused.
* Data derived for the PK deficiency population drawn from the Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency NHS. To contextualize the findings, the frequencies of select conditions were compared with an age- and gender-matched cohort of individuals from the insured, general US population who did not have any hemolytic anemia diagnoses and had ≥5 years of continuous enrollment in the Truven MarketScan administrative claims database. The mean age for patients ERT (n=65) was 34.2 years, NRT (n=30) was 39.5 years, and NT (n=27) was 37.2 years at enrollment.2
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