WHEN doctors dismissed 13-year-old Bebe’s tiredness as anaemia, her mum had a gut feeling there must be a more serious ...

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is a common laboratory test used to assess inflammation in the body. It measures how quickly red blood cells settle at the bottom of a test tube over a ...

Mum Anne-Marie had to demand a print-out of the blood results, Google the results herself and pay for a private appointment ...

Recent research demonstrates that erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) increases during pregnancy. Also, both gestational age and haemoglobin concentration significantly influence ESR. Recent ...

HealthDay News — Anemia is prevalent among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a study published online Oct. 26 in Cureus. Jamal Shah, M.B.B.S., from Khyber Teaching Hospital in ...

A test to measure sedimentation of red blood cells so as to measure the rate of inflammation ... and dividing that product by the number of erythrocytes (red blood cells) in that volume.

Prosthetic joint implantations improve patients' quality of life but are associated with complications, including aseptic failure and prosthetic joint infection (PJI). Biofilms are the essential ...

Most people with anemia had elevated C-reactive protein levels (83.33%; mean C-reactive protein, 28.79 mg/L) and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (88.89%; mean erythrocyte sedimentation ...