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Your Standard Health Checkup

I once had a friend that said he refused to go to the doctor because of the inevitability of something else being wrong the older he got. While I understand that the lifestyle of prescription pills and high cholesterol levels isn’t ideal, I can’t imagine a life where I wasn’t fully aware and conscious of what was going on with my body. At Selfie Healthie, we take the results of a doctor’s office straight to your home, making each and every bit of news just a little bit more personal. One of the primary packages that we offer is for a self health check up, and while it may seem like something incredibly quick and far too easy, there are...

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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...

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