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  2. Arterial blood gas test - Wikipedia

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    An arterial blood gas (ABG) test, or arterial blood gas analysis (ABGA) measures the amounts of arterial gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide.An ABG test requires that a small volume of blood be drawn from the radial artery with a syringe and a thin needle, [1] but sometimes the femoral artery in the groin or another site is used.

  3. Red blood cell distribution width - Wikipedia

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    RDW in adults [9] Severity [9] Most notable causes [9] 14.5% - 18% Mild anisocytosis Infection, vigorous exercise or certain drugs. Iron deficiency anemia in the presence of anemia and microcytosis. 18% - 26% Moderate anisocytosis Severe iron deficiency anemia, megaloblastic anemia. > 26% Severe anisocytosis Sideroblastic anemia

  4. Hodgkin lymphoma - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, 88% of people diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma survive for five years or longer. [5] For those under the age of 20, rates of survival are 97%. [13] Radiation and some chemotherapy drugs, however, increase the risk of other cancers, heart disease, or lung disease over the subsequent decades. [9]

  5. VO2 max - Wikipedia

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    V̇O 2 max (also maximal oxygen consumption, maximal oxygen uptake or maximal aerobic capacity) is the maximum rate of oxygen consumption attainable during physical exertion. [1] [2] The name is derived from three abbreviations: "V̇" for volume (the dot over the V indicates "per unit of time" in Newton's notation), "O 2" for oxygen, and "max" for maximum and usually normalized per kilogram of ...

  6. Multiple myeloma - Wikipedia

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    With high-dose therapy followed by ASCT, the median survival has been estimated in 2003 to be about 4.5 years, compared to a median around 3.5 years with "standard" therapy. [ 148 ] The international staging system can help to predict survival, with a median survival (in 2005) of 62 months for stage-1 disease, 45 months for stage-2 disease, and ...

  7. Plasmodium - Wikipedia

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    Plasmodium is a eukaryote but with unusual features.. The genus Plasmodium consists of all eukaryotes in the phylum Apicomplexa that both undergo the asexual replication process of merogony inside host red blood cells and produce the crystalline pigment hemozoin as a byproduct of digesting host hemoglobin. [2]

  8. Carbon dioxide - Wikipedia

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    The symmetry of a carbon dioxide molecule is linear and centrosymmetric at its equilibrium geometry. The length of the carbon–oxygen bond in carbon dioxide is 116.3 pm, noticeably shorter than the roughly 140 pm length of a typical single C–O bond, and shorter than most other C–O multiply bonded functional groups such as carbonyls. [19]

  9. Chronic condition - Wikipedia

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    Obesity results in significant health care spending and indirect costs, as illustrated by a recent study from the Texas comptroller reporting that obesity alone cost Texas businesses an extra $9.5 billion in 2009, including more than $4 billion for health care, $5 billion for lost productivity and absenteeism, and $321 million for disability.