Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Nov 1993
Normative distribution of complete blood count from early childhood through adolescence: the Bogalusa Heart Study.
Noting the distribution of blood values in a biracial southern community according to age, sex, and race variations will help in understanding the normative developmental changes in early life and provides background information. ⋯ Blood values differ by age, sex, and race. These differences change at maturation and should be considered when defining normal and "abnormal" blood values.