Blood Test

Interpreting Blood Test: Some Curiosities in Sport

interpreting blood test: some curiosities in sportDr. Benjamin Fernández García is one of the most prestigious sports physicians worldwide. He has worked with athletes from the likes of Tony Rominger. He is currently a sports physician of the Royal Spanish Federation of Winter Sports and FDM Avilés.

Do they change the values of an analytic when a person performs regularly sport?

Yes and very conveniently. In general, metabolic values are healthier when doing sport. Observed decrease in total cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose basal (hence the exercise is recommended for diabetics). It can also increase the HDL or good cholesterol fraction and the level of urea by the effect of protein catabolism. Read the rest of this entry »

Interpreting Blood Test: Changes in Diet

blood test: changes in dietChanges in diet in cases of …

Diet low in carbohydrates and sweet single chain carbohydrates for long chain such as whole grains and rice to excess sugar that characterizes diabetes.

Iron and vitamin C, iron deficiency anemia. Foods rich in iron are meat, fish, offal and iron with less healthy but are nuts, legumes, grains, grapes, spinach, watercress, and strawberries. Vitamin C helps iron absorption so you can accompany food of oranges, kiwis and squeeze lemon juice over meat and fish. Read the rest of this entry »

Interpreting Blood Test: The Analytics

blood test: the analytics- Erythrocytes: Also called red blood cell are the cell corpuscles that carry oxygen through the bloodstream to your cells need to breathe. Inside contain hemoglobin, the protein responsible for carrying oxygen and gives blood its red color.

When the hemoglobin concentration decreases anemia appear, the most frequent in the population because they are called iron deficiency due to iron deficiency, since this mineral is part of the hemoglobin molecule. Iron is transported by plasma transferrin and deposited in tissues as ferritin.

Ferritin values tell us how much iron is deposited in the body and when it falls, is a good parameter to assess iron deficiency anemia.

- Hematocrit: The percentage of erythrocytes in total blood volume. It is a good indicator for assessing anemia. Read the rest of this entry »

Interpreting Blood Test: What is Blood?

blood test: what is blood?Blood is a tissue that serves to transport and distribution of numerous substances in the body, is responsible for carrying oxygen to cells, the energy in the form of glucose, proteins, lipids, hormones, neurotransmitters, minerals, vitamins, etc..

For the blood pass most of the substances so that by measuring the levels of these in the small tube that you removed, your doctor may be interpreted as operating machinery of your body in general.

In the blood can find four types of elements: cellular corpuscles (white blood cells and platelets), plasma or liquid part, gases (O2 and CO2) and organic and mineral products transported (hormones, minerals, proteins, etc. .) Read the rest of this entry »