Age-related changes in peripheral blood counts in humans

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1019-1025

  Mahlknecht, Ulrich ^a,b   Kaiser, Simone ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78049303063     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2010.150     Document Type: Article

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