Hematological indices in an older population sample: Derivation of healthy reference values

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 96-101

  Tsang, Chiu Wah ^a   Lazarus, Ross ^a,c   Smith, Wayne ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Koutts, Jerry ^a   Burnett, Leslie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; ELDERLY CARE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CREATININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0001812870     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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