Hemoglobin

The red blood cell is a pigment of usual bright red depending on the amount of hemoglobin in it. The cell can differ from a scarlet to a burgundy. The color of the red blood cell is an advantage for the rest of the human body, and for the cell itself. Its color makes other cells capable of distinguishing it from any other bacteria. Lets…

The Hemoglobin A1c test sounds like something you would have had to take back in AP bio class, but it’s actually a fairly common blood test. Your doctor may even have suggested you take one in the past. The A1c shows what your average blood sugars have been for the past 3 or 4 months. This is a simple way to determine whether or not a person is pre-diabetic or diabetic. If they’ve already been diagnosed with diabetes, this test also allows their doctor to determine whether or not they’ve been…

It is marked by defective hemoglobin. A.K.A. the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to the cells of the body. Sickle cell disease interrupts with the delivery of oxygen to the body cells. Normal red blood cells are smooth, disk-shaped, and flexible, like lifesavers without…

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successfully control type 2 diabetes. A glucometer is a device used to check daily blood glucose levels with normal ranges being 70-100 mg/dL. A1c is a test of red blood cells evaluated every 3 months with normal ranges being under 6.5% of glucose in hemoglobin. With the monitoring interventions of daily blood glucose and A1c along with a change in diet, exercise, and the proper anti-diabetic medication, type 2 diabetes can be a well-managed and controlled area of overall…

correct diagnosis. The first step in diagnosis is to test the blood. The tests performed on the blood is a complete blood count with differential and a reticulocyte count. This test provides a lot of information on the condition of the blood such as hemoglobin, hematocrit, and the number of red and white blood cells as well as the number of platelets. The last thing this test shows is the mean corpuscular volume of the red blood cells, which is the average size of the red blood cells in the…

Summary: Porphyria is an uncommon, genetically caused disease, which makes the blood pigment in hemoglobin to not properly be changed into material for your body to use. The title porphyria originates from the modern latin term porphyrin which are pigments containing heme or chlorophyll with molecules that have a flat ring of four connected heterocyclic groups and occasionally a metal atom. There are two different forms of porphyria; acute porphyria and cutaneous porphyria. Acute porphyria…

In general, between 25 and 85 percent of preterm neonates, babies born before 37 weeks gestation, develop iron deficiency within six months of their birth (Rao & Georgieff, 2009). Iron is a key component of hemoglobin, which is the protein responsible for creating healthy red blood cells (RBCs) and allowing RBCs to carry oxygen (Abbaspour, Hurrell, & Kelishadi, 2014). Consequently, if not treated, iron deficiency can often lead to a life-threatening condition called anemia, which occurs when…

Genetic Disease: SCD Sickle cell disease is caused by the abnormal change in the haemoglobin gene that slows the flow of blood which causes lack of oxygen to the tissues. Yolanda Smith defines haemoglobin as, “an essential cellular component of the red blood cells that play the role of transporting oxygen in the blood to the bodily tissues where it is required”. ("News-Medical.net", 2015). There are two types of haemoglobin there is HbA that is found in normal red blood cells and HbS one that…

Hemoglobin has a peroxidase-like activity, meaning that it will break down hydrogen peroxide, or other organic hydroperoxides. This makes it useful in forensics, since you can test for the presence of hemoglobin simply by dropping hydrogen peroxide on it. Of course, there are a lot of things that have peroxidases in them, so this is a presumptive test for the presence of blood. Blood cells are not immortal; each cell wears out in about four months, and will disintegrate in the blood stream,…