As A Treatment"...A plethora of additional factors can affect your test results: your intake of caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and vitamin C; your diet (vegetarian vs..."
As A Treatment"...If a patient does not have enough platelets, he will be at an increased risk of excessive bleeding and bruising..."
As A Treatment"The Complete Blood Count (CBC) is a very common test that used to be ordered on every person during his or her yearly physical..."
As A Treatment"...With allergies, there may be an increased number of eosinophils, and with leukemia, there may be a much higher percentage of a single type of cell, such as a lymphocyte..."
As A Treatment"...The differential classifies a person's white blood cells into each type: neutrophils (also known as segs, PMNs, grans), lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils..."
As A Treatment"...Was the culture positive for strep throat? Did the test find antibodies to a virus that indicates an infection? But for many more tests, the meaning of the results depends on their context..."
As A Treatment"...In some anemias, such as pernicious anemia, the amount of variation (anisocytosis) in RBC size (along with variation in shape - poikilocytosis) causes an increase in the RDW..."
As A Treatment"...The MCV is elevated when your RBCs are larger than normal (macrocytic), for example in anemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency..."
As A Treatment"...Some diseases, such as cancer (and chemotherapy treatment), can affect bone marrow production of cells, increasing the production of one cell at the expense of others or decreasing overall cell production..."
As A Treatment"... Hemoglobin measures the amount of oxygen-carrying protein in the blood..."
As A Treatment"...It provides information about the white blood cell (WBC), red blood cell (RBC), and platelet populations that are present..."