Clinical, Biochemical and Haematological Reference Values in Normal Experimental Animals

Seasonal variation in haematological and biochemical reference values for healthy young children in The Gambia

BACKGROUND Haematological and biochemistry reference values for children are important for interpreting clinical and research results however, differences in demography and environment poses a challenge when comparing results. The study defines reference intervals for haematological and biochemistry parameters and examines the effect of seasonality in malaria transmission. METHODS Blood sampl...

Haematological and Biochemical Reference Values for Healthy Adults in the Middle Belt of Ghana

BACKGROUND Reference values are very important in clinical management of patients, screening participants for enrollment into clinical trials and for monitoring the onset of adverse events during these trials. The aim of this was to establish gender-specific haematological and biochemical reference values for healthy adults in the central part of Ghana. METHODS A total of 691 adults between 1...

Normal Haematological Values in Young Punjabi Females

Current concepts of "normal values," "reference values," and "discrimination values," in clinical chemistry.

The term "normal values" is seriously afflicted by sylleptic ambiguities and conceptual problems, and it is gradually being discarded from the lexicon of clinical chemistry. The neutral term "reference values" preferable on semantic and scientific grounds, and its use in clinical chemistry is rapidly gaining acceptance. The term "discrimination value" has been added to the lexicon of clinical c...

Normal haematological values: sex difference in neutrophil count.

Blood counts were performed on 100 male and 100 female staff to establish normal ranges for our hospital. Neutrophil counts were found to be on average 0.66 times 10-9/1 (660/mm-3) higher in women than in men. Statistically this difference was highly significant and was not due to the fact that many of the women were taking oral contraceptives. The neutrophil counts of the men and women were al...