Complete Blood Count Reference Ranges from a Rural Haitian Ambulatory Care Clinic

Electrocardiographic reference ranges derived from 79,743 ambulatory subjects.

BACKGROUND Reference ranges for electrocardiogram (ECG) intervals, heart rate, and QRS axis in general use by medical personnel and ECG readers are unrepresentative of true age- and sex-related values in large populations and are not based on modern electrocardiographic and ECG reading technology. METHODS AND RESULTS The results of ECG interpretation by cardiologists using digital technology ...

Local reference ranges for full blood count and CD4 lymphocyte count testing.

OBJECTIVE Recent advances in full blood count and CD4 technology, coupled with the changing population demographics of the Gauteng region, have necessitated reevaluation of the reference ranges currently in use. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 631 female and 88 male HIV-negative participants from the Gauteng region was performed. Full blood count, automated differential and CD4 count analy...

Complete Blood Count Reference Intervals for Healthy Han Chinese Adults

BACKGROUND Complete blood count (CBC) reference intervals are important to diagnose diseases, screen blood donors, and assess overall health. However, current reference intervals established by older instruments and technologies and those from American and European populations are not suitable for Chinese samples due to ethnic, dietary, and lifestyle differences. The aim of this multicenter col...

The complete blood count.

Complete blood count reference interval diagrams derived from NHANES III: stratification by age, sex, and race.

BACKGROUND Comprehensive, up-to-date "health-associated" reference interval studies of North American populations are uncommon. The third US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) was concluded in 1994 and yielded important reference interval data. OBJECTIVE To obtain health-associated Coulter counter reference interval data from NHANES III according to age, sex, and ra...