Haematological and biochemical reference values for healthy adults in the Middle Belt of Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Dosoo, David K ^a   Kayan, Kingsley ^a   Adu Gyasi, Dennis ^a   Kwara, Evans ^a   Ocran, Josephine ^b   Osei Kwakye, Kingsley ^a   Mahama, Emmanuel ^a   Amenga Etego, Stephen ^a   Bilson, Philip ^a   Asante, Kwaku P ^a   Koram, Kwadwo A ^b   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^a  

^a KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; BILIRUBIN; CHLORIDE; CHOLESTEROL; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GHANA; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860477505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036308     Document Type: Article

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