Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells and hematocrit is a measurement of the amount of red blood cells as related to total blood cell count. Both hemoglobin and hematocrit are used to diagnose anemia. Both hemoglobin and hematocrit can be measured from standard blood tests, and both value...
Hemoglobin (Hb or Hgb) is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body. A low hemoglobin count is generally defined as less than 13.5 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter (135 grams per liter) of blood for men andless than 12 grams per deciliter (120 grams per lit...
If you have diabetes, a high hemoglobin A1C means that you are more likely to experience complications including: Problems with eyesight Heart disease Stroke Kidney disease Nerve damage The hemoglobin A1c measurement is also important in screening for diabetes. People with an A1C greater than 6% are...
Don’t ask me what “restricted cubic spline function” means! The paleo diet can be ketogenic after a few modifications that get total daily digestible carbs down to 20-30 grams/day. That can be very risky for diabetics taking insulin or other drugs with potential to cause hypoglycemia. ...
Because children with ADHD and control children were matched by age, height, weight, body mass index, grade level, and sex, the distributions and means of these variables were comparable(Table1). Children with ADHD were more likely to have parents with lower education levels, blue-collar jobs...
statistical package for the social science (SPSS) 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL. USA). Differences between groups were tested using thet-test for independent samples. Significant differences were defined as P < 0.05 and the data were presented as the means ± standard deviation (SD)...
“Going keto” means putting your body into a state of ketosis, which is a metabolic state that occurs when most of the body’s energy comes from ketone bodies in the blood, rather than from glucose (or sugar). On the keto diet, you are tricking your body into thinking it’s fasting...