Understanding Your CBC Blood Results
Understanding the different characteristics of each blood cell in your body is important, yet not many people know what each cell does. If you’re an individual who requires regular home blood tests, it’s vital to understand the meaning behind each type of cell, including mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), red cell distribution width (RDW), platelet count and mean platelet volume (MPV). To recap from our last post, we gave readers the info they needed to better understand the importance of their CBC, also known as a Complete Blood Count. Additional types of cells found in a CBC: White blood cell or leukocyte count (WBC). WBC differential count. Hematocrit (Hct). Hemoglobin (Hbg). Red blood cell or erythrocyte count (RBC). Mean corpuscular...