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If you had a high hematocrit, would you expect your hemoglobin determination to be high or low? Wouldn’t...

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Ifyou had a high hematocrit, would you expect your hemoglobindetermination to be high or low?

Wouldn’t a high hematocrit indicate
that the RBCs have a low oxygen carrying capacity (anemic) =low hemoglobin (?)

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To answer this first we need toknow what is hematocrit and what is the relationship betweenHematocrit RBCs and hemoglobinThe hematocrit measures the volumeof red blood cells compared to the total blood volume red bloodcells and plasma So hematocrit value is high if there is morevolume of RBCs in total blood    See Answer
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