Experience with routine total nonfasting blood cholesterol screening of volunteer blood and component donors

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 731-736

  Eason, Stephen ^a,b   Goudar, Shankar ^a,b   Centilli, Jeff ^a,b   Sayers, Merlyn ^a,b  

^a Carter BloodCare   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLESTEROL; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954604135     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02920.x     Document Type: Article

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