Reference intervals for eight measurands of the blood count in a large population based study

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 9-19

  Ittermann, Till ^a   Roser, Markus ^a   Wood, Graham ^a   Preez, Helma ^a   Lüdemann, Jan ^a   Völzke, Henry ^a   Nauck, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood count bootstrap method; Large prospective cross sectional study; Quantile regression; Reference intervals

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BOOTSTRAPPING; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950258725     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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