Low hematocrit (Hct). That’s the volume of red blood cells in your blood. Normal is 35.5 to 44.9 percent for adult women and 38.3 to 48.6 percent for adult men.

ATLANTA — The standard approach of maintaining hematocrit levels less than 45% in patients with polycythemia vera was associated with a lower risk of thrombosis than the less aggressive strategy ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Among patients with Crohn’s disease who were treated with certolizumab pegol, those with low hematocrit had significantly shorter time to loss of remission compared with those ...

Rates of all cardiovascular events, including those not counted in the primary endpoint, were 4.4% with low hematocrit versus 10.9% with high hematocrit (HR 2.69, 95% CI 1.19 to 6.12, P=0.02).

Some investigators have incorporated selected CBC measures, for example, white blood cell count and hemoglobin/hematocrit, into multivariable models that predict mortality or rehospitalizations ...

Atlanta, GA - Maintaining a lower hematocrit (HCT) can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular death in patients with polycythemia vera, according to the results of CYTO-PV [1]. Those who had an ...

Treatment guidelines in polycythemia vera currently recommend maintaining hematocrit below 45%, with a higher threshold for men vs women. Treatment guidelines in PV currently recommend maintaining ...

Hematocrit reflects the proportion of red blood cells in the blood, and MCV measures red blood cell size. Your blood test may point to iron deficiency anemia if you have: Low hemoglobin ...

At baseline, mean serum testosterone levels were 244.6 vs 240.7 ng/dL and mean hematocrit levels were 44.4% vs 42.7% in the intranasal vs intramuscular testosterone groups, respectively.

Q: My husband's regular blood work in 2012 showed that his monocytes were elevated (15 percent) and his HCT was low (39 percent). When we asked his doctor what this meant, she said, "Cancer ...

The trial met the primary endpoint, as 18 of 26 (69.2%) patients achieved a stable hematocrit level of less than 45%. In the placebo arm of the withdrawal component, five of 27 (18.5%) patients ...

The equations for predicting the Wintrobe hematocrit level from the microcapillary hematocrit level are c = 6.2 + 0.88 a (3) and c = 2.1 + 0.98 b (4) where a, b and c have the same meanings as ...