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V Page 14A - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday. January 21. 1988 Grant To Fund ECU Sickle Cell Study Greenville - A new study at the East Carolina University School of Medicine will investigate the nutritional ne#ds of children with sickle cell disease in a pro ject funded by Ronald McDonald Children's Charities (RMCC). The one-year study, wholly supported by a $60,593 RMCC grant, will be conducted by ECU dietitian Nancy T. Gray and hematologist Dr. C. Tate Hol brook through the medical schools Regional Comprehen sive Sickle Cell Program. RMCC, established in 1984 in memory of McDonald's founder Ray A. Kroc, awards grants to not-for-profit organizations helping children. More than 100 Ronald McDonald Houses, in cluding the recently completed Ronald McDonald House of Eastern North Carolina located in Greenville, represent the cor nerstone of RMCC. "With the support of the McDo nald's family and our customers, RMCC is pleased to assist this worthwhile children's program," said RMCC representative Dr. John Falletta, chief of pediatric hematology/onocology at Duke University Medical Center. "Since its inception in 1984", he added, "RMCC has awarded 226 grants totaling nearly $7 mil lion." Sickle cell disease, confined largely to black populations, is the world's most common here ditary blood disorder. In the United States, one in every 500 black children is afflicted with sickle cell disease. According to Holbrook, the disorder damages a child's red blood cells, limiting their ability to carry oxygen to body tissues ECU sickle cell researchers (from left) Tate Holbrook and Nancy Gray accept a $60,593 check from McDonald's representatives Charles Crump, Bill Pretty, Bill Freelove and Wes Elam. Crump heads field services for the McDonald's Raleigh region office while Pretty, Freelove and Elam are McDo nald's licensees with restaurants in the re gion. and distorting their normal dlsk-llke shape into sticky, mal formed sickles that can readily clog small blood vessels. With symptoms often develop ing soon after birth, the disorder can result in anemia, recurrent pain, retarded growth, and even tual organ damage. The ECU study will document the nutritional status of chil dren with sickle cell disease. Gray said the limited research available on the subject sug gests that such children tend to be deficient in calories, protein and certain vitamins and miner als, although it is unclear whether the deficiency results from the disease itself or from a substandard diet. Ultimately, Gray and Holbrook hope that correcting the defl- clency may alleviate problems the children have with growth and development, and possibly make them more resistant to other sickle cell complications. 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