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Blood, 1 March 2006, Vol. 107, No. 5, pp. 1747-1750.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on September 27, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-07-3046.
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Submitted July 29, 2005
Accepted September 7, 2005
The Definition of Anemia: What Is the Lower Limit of Normal of the Blood Hemoglobin Concentration?
Ernest Beutler* and Jill Waalen
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
* Corresponding author; email: beutler{at}scripps.edu.
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