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What do kidney patients often suffer from?
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anemia
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What ingredients are necessary for RBC formation?
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Iron, Vitamin B12, and the B vitamin folic acid
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The lack of what and chronic blood loss will lead to what?
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dietary uptake of iron leads to iron-deficiency anemia and insufficient hemoglobin production.
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what does lack of vitamin B12 cause? What happens with this condition?
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pernicious anemia, stem cell activity to produce RBC's is reduced due to inadequate DNA production
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What kind of anemia leads to a reduce number of RBC's, particularly during pregnancy?
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Folic acid deficiency anemia
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Which type of anemia would stem cell activity to produce RBC's reduced due to inadequate DNA production?
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pernicious anemia
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Why would being iron defiicient make you weak?
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lack of terminal H+ e- acceptor, can't make ATP
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What type of anemia would the rate of RBC destruction increase?
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hemolytic anemia
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What are some types of hemolytic anemia?
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Sickle-cell disease, hemolytic disease of the newborn
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WHat do sickle shaped cells tend to do as they pass through the narrow capillaries?
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sickle-cell disease
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What causes sickle cell disease? What is the life expectancy of sickled RBC's?
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hemoglobin S, 90 days (instead of 120)
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How could you get a stroke from RBC's?
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If the RBC's were nucleated, it could block a vessel carrying oxygen to the brain causing a cerebrovascular accident
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