Word: hemoglobins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart for an athlete," says Monge. The Andean practically never suffers from high blood pressure...
Last week the doctors reported the results of the two-year test in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There was no real difference between the two groups of children-in height, weight, or hemoglobin and red cell count. General health seemed to favor the margarine boys & girls, but the doctors cautiously credited "other variables." Their conclusion : "Whether the greater part of the fat of the diet is derived from vegetable or animal sources has no effect on growth and health. .. . Margarine is a good source of table fat in growing children...
...Additional volunteers are still needed to meet the quota," Strawson warned, "as many who have already signed up to give blood may be rejected for medical reasons. Such reasons include low hemoglobin count or a fever...
...course, you didn't mean that the poor mother received transfusions of pure hemoglobin, which would have been toxic if not fatal. Mrs. Wenger probably received whole blood to build up her hemoglobin level...
Luminal & Hemoglobin...