By definition, patients with the sickle cell trait (HbAS) have at least 50% HbA. Under physiologic conditions, clinical problems are rare. Hb polymerization begins below oxygen saturations of 85% in patients with HbSS, but this does not occur in patients with HbAS until saturations are les...
7 1.3 31.4 31.8 0.58 2.43 * N : Negro; F: female; M: male 8 Sec Materials and Methods for definition oi hemoglobin types. 1 Percentages of Hb-F in parentheses were determined by DEAE-Sephadex chromatography only [8, 17]; such values usually agree with %Fji0 values if the percent Hb...
Definition, diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus and its complications. Part 1: diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus provisional report of a WHO consultation. Diabet Med. 1998;15:539–53. 32. Committee on the standardization of diabetes mellitus-related laboratory testing of ...