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Variation
W.

By

HE

W.

aid

an

therefore

in

adequate

Altitude
levels

the

tiot

from

of

Canada,

the

reliable

considered

as

have

a factor

l)eems

100

the

years

of

United
to

age

older

people

States,

justify

the

particularly
before

among

older

levels

the

these

tables

magmsitude
A

are,

reported
levels

United

obtain

hetweems

with

adults.

middle
Smh

people

data
age,

The

N.

of

the

Ofl

1308

male

other

between
Regional

AND

and 1424

November

reported
tens years,

The
values

methods
with

ose

typical
of those
usually
adult
life. The other
lower.

but

women

The

sex

it is smaller
the

its

upon
is little

people

treisd

its reports

or no

a decrease

of

of

the

(hausge

its

occurs

in

the

to

allow

degree

comparisoms

of the

of

sex differemsce

be of fairly
side interest
amsd use,
likely
to exist
hetween
hemoglobin
in many
other
localities
in Camsada,
coumstries,

particularly

at sea

level.

METHODS
feussale

12,

Laboratory,

last

subjects

1952,

anstl

National

bet weeu
May

22,

Research

tlue

ages

1953.

The

Council

of

9,

1954.

of

Canada,

98

arutl

youngest

subIlali-

S.

Submitted
We

these

that

but

adult

could

some

beets

the

cots-

in order
to extend
informatious
our
6 years
of age upw-ard.
We wished

would not be
Halifax
amsd those

amid possibly

Maritime

age,

on

SUBJECTS

From

of

hemoglobin

have

geuserally

and

amid to itidicate

information

differemsces

States,

aspect

is kmsowus

l)y Wiustrohe,

mets

advaisciusg

sufficient

The survey
was (lone
years. It was carried out

fax,

showus

here was umidertakems


of individuals
from

amid after

significant
among
the

is

be comssurveys

ots this

Britaims.

of

however,

as that

differemsce

of women

to

values
because

same

people.

The work
hemoglobin

must
have

Little

amid Great

comparisoms

values
in late adult
life has been
remarked
years.
Evidence
has beets provided
that
there

the hemoglobin
men.46

used
l)asis

its relatioms

states
decade

withims

mostly

in

hemoglobin
last few

values

factors.
which

values

among

is widely

affectimsg

domse.1

reported
in this
survey.
values
givems by Wintrohe2
are
of mets amid womems throughout

adult

Sex

factual

figures

and with those


Its tables
2 amsd 3 the
coissidered
as characteristic
is of the

blood

A sound

of other
geographic
hemoglobims
values

similar

another

for

LEONARD

whets
borderlimse
omsly about
the last

surveys

4 to about

sufficiently

difference

G.

of hemoglobims

to provide

he

most

importamsce
3 summarize

from

were

and

VERNA

of health.
tremsd

important
Within

amid exteist

where

particularly

the

Age

respect
childreus
from
six years
of age upward
amsd young
most
attemstion.
The state
of kmsowledge
con(ermsiusg
Isemopopulatioms
groups
is, however,
still umssatisfactory.

possible
1 2, and

individuals

AND

state

establishimig

useed

localities

cerising
Tables

of the

is most
surveys.

probably

in

used

for

in number

have
levels

SPECK

with

CONCENTI(ATH)N

Its this
received
in some

hematology.

Level

EIaLY5

assessmetst

and sex. This


as in msutritiots

women
globin

Hemoglobin

HAWKINS,

necessary

to age
sidered,

for

the

HEMOGLI)BIN

as

been

of

must

course

December
thank

of this

Dr.

survey,

9,
E.

1953;

Gordon

and

accepted
Vounug,

for hell)

for
the

publication
Director

ins preparing
999

February
of this

the

nsaterial

Laboratory,

for

for publications.

ativice

dun

rig

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1000

VARIATION

TAB
Age

No.

OF

hEMOGLOBIN

I.E

1 -Hemoglobin

of subjects

Hgb

(hildren

av.)

Locality

Ref.

13.3-13.6

Great

Britain

19

13.2

Great

Britain

20

1483

12.8

British

5-il

3575
1456

12.8
13.3

Floritia
Saskatchewan

5-15

200

12.5

hamilton,

5-16

518

12.4

East

8-13

515

13.1

Louisiana

Columbia

14
12
15

Ont.

10

Ont.

York,

10
21

7-14

358

13.5

Michigans

7-14

1669

13.6

Saskatoons,

S
Sask.

297

h)oys

13. 1-13.8

Eniglanud

13

10

329

boys

13.5-14.0

England

13

14

550

boys

14.3-14.7

Enugland

13

2.-Hemoglobin

TABLE
Age

No.

of subjects

Hgb

Levels

%,

(Gm.

among

as.)

Men

Locatity

Ref.

19

12-19

13.8

Great

Britaini

15-19

14.2

Great

Britains

19

16-25

137

15.1

Hawaii

22

111

15.8

Cleveland

23

25

15.9

Philadelphia

24

411

15.2

Bostons

25

77

16.2

Sydnsev

26

51

17-23
17-25
19-28

15.6

Norway

539
245

16.0
15.7

U. S. A. and
Great
Britain

175

16.0

Lima

28

60

13.8

Canada

11

330

14.0

Winunsipeg

60-94

50

14.1

St.

60-98

41

13.9

Scotlansd

65-80

73

13.1

U. S. A.

29

69-91

50

12.6

U.

S.

A.

30

160

14.3

U.

S.

A.

31

19-30
16-59

50-79
50-97

60-104

jects

were

ins tlse

studied

during

the

early

part

of the

winter,

27
Europe

2, 3
13

Louis

5
4

and

the

adults

later

in the

winter

and

sprinsg.

the

With

provide
drawn

help

of the

children
from
each

Those

from

universities,

to

Halifax

14 to

was

with

disorders

folks

homes.

welfare
class

2() years

Capillary
into

of

Service,

a variety

were

age

the oldest

schools

its high

studensts

among

six

were

of socio-econsomic

them

schools,

would

wisich

would

Subjects

hospitals,

expected

be

choseni
groups.

to have

were

colleges,

and

a better

than

background.

wide variety
likely
Many

groups.

than

Medical

old from
in each school.

at least

socio-economic

There

School

14 years

grade

so that

average

taken

SEX

493

known

%,

(Gm.

a many

AND

nomic

Levels

AGE

4-14

old

WITH

6-13
6-14

anuy

LEVEL

those

blood
a calibrates!

from

of adult
to

were

affect
members

Ins general
usually

the

pipet,

adults

of the

finger

collected

were

some

were
and

were

ins surveys
and

There

hemoglobins
of clubs

studied

a puncture
Sahli

subjects.
the

societies,

more
of this
tip

was

ins a few

invalids

excluded.

among

Some
including

healthy

them,

were
some

and

but

residents
of

in a better

the

of
better

socio-eco-

kind.
used.

A sample

nmilliliters

of 20 cu.

of water

mm.

was

in a test

tube

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HAWKINS,

No.

of subjects

A ND

Hgb

Ierels

%,

tGm.

1001

LEOXA

liD

among

hlonuen
Locality

av.)

Ref.

12-19

12.8

Great

Britaits

19

15-19

13.6

Great

Britain

19
32

12-19

258

12.2
13.0

15-22

48
44

Mi nsnsesot a
Cleveland

13.6

iIi55iS5il)l)i

17-21

1080

12.0

Toronto

17-24

4550

13.4

Nortlu

23
33

central

17-22

161

13.8

Amherst,

17-25

52

13.2

Linscolns,

17-26

352

13.8

Saskatoon,

18-23

25

13.5

Philatlelphia

17-68

403

14.0

U.

19-30

U.

S.

10
34

A.

Mass.

S.

35

Neb.

36
Sask.

24

A.

ansd

2, 3

Europe

14.1

Norway

275

13.2

Lincoln,

480

13.8

Great

64

12.7

Cansada

175

13.6

60-90

50

13.7

60-98

48

13.2

Winnipeg
St. Louis
Scotland

65-80

27

12.5

U.S.

A.

29

66-104

50

11.7

U. S.

A.

30

60

17-86

50-79
50-97

marked
to the

at

10 ml.

10 ml.

At the

nsark

mination

of

laboratory

with

spectrophotometer.
the

K,

3.-Hemoglobin

TABLE
Age

SPEC

water,

This

the

was

described
had

Collier.7
been

36

Britains

13
11
6
5
4

with

(lensity

of the

by

concentration

treated

optical

is ans application

hemoglobin

hemoglobin

this

arid

27
XCI).

ferricvanide

and

at 540

mM in a Coleman

read

cyanmethemoglobins
It

was

method

standardized

determinetl

cyanide,

from

against

the

iron

for

ea(h

diluted
model

for

the

blood

constent

14

deter-

of which

and

oxygen

capacity.
RESULTS

The

hemoglobin

in table

values

4 and

Among

figure

the

average

children

of about

Gm. among
for higher

arrausged

accordiisg

to age

6 to

13 Gm.

the oldest.
values
to

14 years

per

old

100 ml.

Up to about
occur
amoisg

amomig the boys.


The average
was the same,
13.5 Gm. per

values

imscreased

amomsg

12 years of age
the girls,
hut

value
100

the

of blood

the

there

cent

of

and

28 per

the

tendency
In

the

creased
In the
at
jects.

14

them

were

cent

lower.

subjects

latter
years,
In

betweems

toward

slightly
amid

individuals

No

after

betweels

represented

girls,

value

slight

with

14 amid

the

average

this

values

20

positive

increasimsg

preseusted

years

of age
rather

at 20 years
of age

of age
the

that

from

an

to about

14

a temsdeuscy

they

were

higher

6 to 14 years
to msote that

of age
many

Ams examimsation

of age.
childrems

showed

ceust

of them

skewness

was

the

that

beiusg

40

higher

a reflectioms

hemoglohims

markedly

was

highest

iusclusive,

age

of

age.

amsd increased

essemitially

15 to 20 years

31 per

14 Gm.,

ausd

with

youusgest

for both
boys amsd girls
ml. It may
be of itsterest

13

doubt

higher

among
the

are

was possibly

of the girls had started


to memsstruate
at about
11 years
of the distribution of hemoglohins
values
amomsg
these
per

sex

1.

5 per

cent

value

the

average

values

amomsg

the

higher

shown

by

deboys.

thams that
male

hemoglobius

suls-

value

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1002

VARIATION

OF

4.-laria(ion

TABLE

HEMOGLOBIN

of Hemoqiobin

LEVEL

Levels
Population

with

WITH

.lge

of

AGE

and

Sex

AND

among

Representatives

Hgb.

Females
per

100 ml. of blood)


_______
________

(Gm.

No. of
subjects

Range

As.

S.D.

per

tOO ml.

of blood)

_______________

Range

A.

S.D.

66

11.3-14.8

12.5

0.81

53

11.4-14.7

13.2

0.69

45

10.7-14.5

13.1

0.91

60

11.4-15.3

13.2

0.89

55

11.2-15.1

13.3

0.91

42

11.1-15.7

45

11.9-15.1

13.5

0.80

60

11.2-15.7

10

78

11.8-16.0

13.5

0.81

62

11.7-15.2

11

56

11.4-15.3

13.4

0.91

57

11.6-17.0

12

51

12.0-16.4

14.1

1.01

56

11.5-15.9

13

45

12.2-15.8

14.0

0.91

66

11.3-15.4

14

66

12.2-16.5

14.3

1.12

93

11.4-16.3

13.1

0.99

13.4

0.92

13.3

0.90

13.7

1.15

13.7

0.79

13.7

0.87

13.5

1.07

15

lOt)

11.4-17.4

14.4

1.05

154

10.5-15.7

13.3

0.9S

16

119

11.7-17.5

14.5

1.13

169

8.0-15.9

13.0

0.98

17
18

83
52

11.1-17.1
12.8-16.9

14.8
15.0

1.17
1.05

104

7.4-15.3

13.2

1.13

10.6-15.4

12.9

0.82

19

39

12.8-16.5

14.9

0.96

44

10.3-14.3

12.5

0.87

20

11)

12.8-17.5

14.9

1.05

21

11.3-14.1

13.2

0.75

57

21-30

83

12.1-18.0

15.1

1.22

44

9.0-14.4

12.7

1.14

31-40

23

12.3-17.5

14.6

1.35

39

11.0-16.2

13.2

0.92

41-50

23

11.8-16.8

14.7

1.26

39

10.2-16.5

13.2

1.30

51-60

65

8.1-16.9

14.4

1.31

41

9.6-16.3

13.1

1.32

61-70

51

8.4-17.4

13.9

1.59

55

7.7-15.6

12.9

1.33

71-80

71

81-90

28

8.9-17.1
8.9-15.8

13.4
12.4

1.59
1.73

71
33

8.3-16.1
11.1-15.4

13.0
13.0

1.45
1.24

91-100

8.9-14.3

11.2

2.18

10.6-12.6

11.4

0.95

6-14

510

10.7-16.5

13.5

1.00

549

11.1-17.0

13.5

0.96

15-20

421

11.1-17.5

14.6

1.12

549

7.4-16.3

13.2

1.04

326

8.3-16.5

13.0

1.20

1424

7.4-17.0

377

8.1-18.0

14.1

1.65

6-94
6-98

for

males

per

cemit.

of the

1308

16

Gm.;
ceist

and

Its the
13.0

and

was

14.6

distributions
had

99

per

case
Gm.

ceust

thereafter

its

het.weeui
of the

of

arid

for females

also

reflected

12 amid

females

amsy

its

age

for

very

little.

decade

succeedimsg

13.2
the

Gm.,

17

had

amid

levels

Gm.,

sex
81

a differetsce

differemsce

per

of 10

: 98 per

ceist

between

13 amid

16 Gm.,

and

of 14.1 Gm.
the values
in

tables

cent

10 and

between

of age the
be compared

ratsges

those

its youmsger

third

1.07

93

15 Gm.

Gm.

12.7

showus

differed

or

ml.,

100

13.3

1.23

of values

differemsces

ins the

those

14.0

of those
above
20 years
for women
cams hardly

because

those

per

11 ausd

value

of

Gm.
levels

betweens

average

8.1-18.0

The

males

per

group

(Gm.

___________

21-98

for

Hgb.

No. of
subjects

21-94

ansy

of the

Halifax

Males

Age

SEX

are

its the

yearly
Amotsg

was
decade.

higher

insvolved.

third

age
the

averages
with
decade

groups.
mets
the

thami
Decreases

Among

that

the

of life

was

The
averages
average
value

men
2

women

the

lower

than

for decades
of 15.1 Gm.

its amsy youmiger


its hemoglobits

for

yearly

values

age
among

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AGE
FIG.

-The

rensd

population

of Halifax.

the

were

meis

men

values

of age,

amomsg

amsd 15 Gm.
Its womeis

per
they

values

those

and

mets

temided

became

amid

among

the

fifth
up

womemi

much

those

of age

at ives

of

decade.
to

smaller,

thaus

60 years

represerut

hue

slsowns.

after

amousg

to be lower

20

sex
are

marked
thams

differemices

l)etw-eems

arud

tleviatiotss

more

highem

the

its mets

wit hi age

stanutiard

amsd

comssiderahly

thereafter

values

ansd

progressive

values

globimi

values

Averages

were

1)1St

decade

of hemoglol)inu

amid

amousg

were

Amousg

about

70

its

vomeus.

typi(ally

years

tise

tsimstls

Hemo-

l)etweeus

14.3

100 ml., the higher


values
occurriung
amomsg the youmsger
sul)jects.
were
typically
about
13
Gm.
The
differeusce
l)etweeus
these
ims tables
2 amid 3 are greater
its the
case
of mets than
of womeus.
DiscUssIoN

The

average

childrems

age

group.

these

A tremid

14 years

Our

ages

vestigatiomss

from

hemoglobin

6 to

results

the

of

value

old

is among

agree

hemoglobin

13.5

the

with

some

imicreases

have
imsdicated
toward
higher
values

(.m.

highest

100

13

its

to

iuscrease
its l)oys

14

6 to

Pett,

Hanley,

amid

a group

those

which

Hanley5

Perkimss1m

of over
fell

below

deduced
of

children
intervals

children

total
of

oms the

1)asis

a thousatid
11.9

the

same

5 to

11

Gm.

per

value
years

of the

childmeis
100

as the
old

its

iii

iusdicatimig

that

per

age,

14 yeams

but
old

100

fom this
betweems

ml.

Other

lower
has

Flalifax

for

reported

of

999

(10.7

ims a histogram.
each

bar

of

the

Gm.

for

curve
amid

disttibutiomi

British

its-

\.ttlIl(s
l)eets

#{176}-

reported

represeust.

Iowei

limit

of normal

was

extemsded

Our

were

two

Gm.

drawus
to

suggested
from

data

one

through
the

axis

time

the
ots

Halifax
six

omitted
girl).
which

amsd

examimsa-

the
ots

that

Pett

among

extremes
for

is im-

j)( made.
values

amsemia.

distributed

the
17.0

(,lsildrems

ma\!

of hemoglobius

could

amid

in

Columbia,

Saskatchewams.

omse boy

A smooth
diagram,

ausemia
speculatiomss

ml.

were analyzed
as follows.
The values
fallimsg hetweems
12 and
17 Cm.,
with

arranged
top

l)lood

England.13

amomig

the

of
beets

Gm.

with

The questioms
of what
lsemoglobims
level represemsts
port.amst.
Aim amsswer
is of course
tsot possii)le,
but

tioms

ml.

have

others2

fmom

the same
thams ours

rem
which

class
out

They
middle
the

of

were
of the
hemo-

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globin

VARIATION

OF

were

represemited.

values

Its limits
were
raisge
of values
would

12 arid

LEVEL

This

appear

to

15 Gm.

This

insformatiomi

average

hemoglobims

might

were

vere

in

AND

a slight

which

who

use

however,
per 100

AGE

showed

Gm.,

h)e of little

distributioms
was such,
levels
below
12 Gm.

WITH

curve

at 11.1 Gm. amid 16.8


among
the 997 subjects

therefore

level.
The
hemoglobims

hEMOGLOBIN

SEX

positive

skewness.

also

the

limits
of the
a procedure

to

defimie

Such

comssidered.

attempt

an

that
5 per
ml. of blood,

be of more

the

anemic

cemit of the childrems


had
aisd 87 per cent between

use

thiuskiisg

iii

about

amsemic

levels.

The
womems
for

14 to 20 years

young

showms

girls

as young

toward

as

14,

arid

decrease

other

ralues

surveys.1

which
10.

each decade
of life
indicatimig
a virtual

many

of

value

mets,

betweems
leveliisg

groups

to be high compared
males
its this period

Halifax

subjects
the same

25

years

The

old

the

average

showed
13.9

iiscreases
Gm.

was

value
Youmsg

the

mens

globin

value

which

was

Its the

The

levels.
The

this

by

value
Pet.t

of

those

group

subjects,

were

in

small

degree

100

Gm.
its

authors
Halifax

a leveling

but

ml.

that
aisd

figures

of vamiatioms

20 years of age was remarkable.

of age

its males

amid

however,

might

be

its hemoglobin

per

same
in

years

to 30.

old
This

its amsy decade

of life.

average

hemo-

as that

values

hemoglobirs

values,

ramiged betweems
14.2 Gm.
for the
per

cent

proportioms

among

highest values amomsg

to
last

20s.

the

attempts

ml.

100
subjects

14

20

highest

95 amid 100
of use

values

amid increases
this
group
of

Gm.
to

imito the

inclusive,

the

Halifax

essemstially the same

deviatioms,
12.2 amid

betweels

over,

The

13
from

maimstaimsed

off

reported

Catsadian

mcmi

it was

for

of those

14.9

the

in

100 ml.,
by Pett

with
those
of more
that
for those
17 to

amousg

showed

noted

womemi

Gm. per
obtained

of age,

irs boys

foumsd
also

decrease

been

of blood

higher,

youmsg

compare

has

most

is a

1)etween

Halifax

ml.

years

there

The

imsdicated

than

Ogilvietm

13.2

Gm.

15 to 20 years

so distributed

12 Gm. per 100


arid over.
These

group

also

lower

was

and

as mimsus arid plus one standard


per 100 ml. for the males,
amid

values

age

If

would

amotsg

per

20.

range.

were
12.7 to 13.2
age of 20. Values

20 to 30

of army of the male


subjects,
at the age of 17 arid

Halifax

age

compare
more
favorably
is supported
by the fact

amid 14.5

which
age

young
values

womeis

to those
in the five precedimsg
years,
of life would
be expected,
so that

reached

expressed
15.7 Gm.
showed
10 Gm.

highest
ins

this

of Camsada

From

thams

subjects

same

values

was

19,

for

of average

young

Halifax

Cm.

2).

of blood

older
in

the

withims

parts

ams average

17 to

these
msearly

of 14.6

found

from

in those

for

hemoglobims

values

some

values

hemoglobims

proh)ab)ly
would
age ramige. This

hemoglobims

ramsge

of age imsclusive,

(table

tended
amotsg
nearly

ml.

the

20 amid 90 years
off at about
the

15 to 20 years

cOmparal)le

015

100

we observed

and Ogilvie#{176} omi womems in various


through
the middle
years
of life.
The average
hemoglobims
value
youlsg

Gm.

imiclude

its more

Average

11

per

was withims

hemoglobims

those
ages,
thems the average
favorably
with those
for others
its hemoglobins

13.2

Umsited
States,
amid Great
Britain
svhich
are
comparable
groups
represemsted
in this table

table

tendeiscy

in

of

its Halifax

womems its Camsada,


the
3. Very
few of the

its

include

value

of age

women
females

the

define

and

females.

of the
of

to

13.5

males
females

ansemic

after

about

were

shown

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HAWKINS,

AND

by those
between
10 and 14 years
of age.
pause
affected
the hemoglobin
level.
In men the progressive
resulted
in the highest
were

30

50,

then

hemoglobin
appeared
values

This

surveys46

which

supplies

between

have

further

Whether

may

the

higher

followed

by a fall,
values.

men

been

evidence

or not

to note that
in the liver,

was

decreasimig
amid

to be the result
of decreasing
men
after
middle
age has

in

this

was

progressively

values

There

1005

iso evidemice

that

the

memso-

increase
ims hemoglobin
through
childhood
amid youth
values
beimig showms in the 20s, whets the lowest
values

by women.

shown

and

LEONARD

it has

The

womems

to above,

a levelimsg

off betweems

decreasimsg

with

differemice

advamscimsg

levels
in men.
beers irsdicated

referred

for

possibly

age

imi

therefore

This trend
its hemoglohims
the results
of previous

in

amid the

material

of this

report

it.

any

connection

with

hemoglobin,

it might

be of iusterest

there
is a difference
between
the sexes in the (omiceustratioms
of iromi
but it varies
with the species.tm6

In rats it is higher
ins females,
and

be

associated

liver

with

sex

hormonses.mt

17

In the

case

of humauss,

mets

have

iron.8
SuIIAIsY

During
the winter
and spring
of 1952-53
made
in Halifax
among
1308 male subjects
6 to 94 years
of age.
Among
children
6 to 14 years
old the
14 Gm. per 100 ml. of blood,
and there

a survey
of hemoglobims
values
was
6 to 98 years
of age, amid 1424 female

subjects

the

sexes.
In

The

girls

slightly,

average

between
reaching

was

au

20 years

They

were

female

to

of age,

the

20

13 Gm.

about

the
of

per

100

In

lowest

subjects

itscreased
essentially

boys

amid the

sexes

these

characteristic
arid

from about
13 to about
rio differemsces
between
girls

was

13.5

Cm.

age the hemoglobims


values
ml. In boys of correspomsdimsg

both

remaimied

the

male

both
years

15 Gm.
and

essentially

and

for

and

about

increase

about

value
14

values
were

the

of army age

highest

values

were

of the

third

showms

respectively

decreased
ages there
attaimsed

decade

at

of life.
h)y

the

group.

Hemoglobin
values in mcmi between
20 arid 60 years of age were typically
to 15 Gm. per 100 ml., the higher
values
tensdimsg
to occur
amouig
the youusger
men.
After
the fifth decade
there
were progressive
amid marked
decreases
to ami
14.5

average
In

of 12.4
women

mained

in men
20

between
years

from

near

13 Gm.

per

80 arid
of

100

age

presentate

un

studio

of age.

the

average

hemoglobins

values

re-

ml.

SUMMARIO

Es

90 years

onsward

IN

del

statistic

INTERLINGUA

valores

hemoglobinic

obtenite

durante

le

e primavera
de 1952/53 a Halifax in Nova Scotia ab 2732 individuos1308 masculin
de etates
ab 6 a 98 annos
e 1424 feminin de etates ab 6 a 94 annos.
In juvenes
inter
6 e 14 annos
le valores
cresceva
ab circa
13 a cim(a 14 g per

hiberno

100

ml

de sanguine.

constatate

In

In iste gruppo

de

le sexos.
Le valor
medic
inter
14 e 20 annos
deetate

inter

pueras

levemente

usque

a circa

13 g per

100 ml

etate

nulle

pro pueros
le valores
de

sanguine.

differentia

essential

e pueras
esseva
de hemoglobina
In pueros del

esseva

13,5

g.

decresceva
mesme

etates

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VARIATION

ii habeva

un

attingite
del

HEMOGLOBIN

accrescimento

usque

de circa

20 annos.

a! etate

vita

OF

e representava

LEVEL

15 g.

Illos

respectivemente

WITH

In

AGE

ambe

AND

sexos

SEX

iste

remaneva

typic

durante

le minimo

e Ic maximo

valores

esseva

le tertie

decade

inter

le gruppos

de etate del duo sexos.


Le

valores

de hemoglobina
14,5 a 15 g per

typicamente

occurrer

le individuos

in

in masculos
100

plus

ml

de

juvene.

inter

30

sanguine.

Post.

e 60

Le

le quimste

e marcate

decrescimentos
usque
al valor medic
de etate.
In feminas
post 20 annos
de etate
Ic valores

annos

valores
decade

de

12,4

de

plus

etate

alte

il habeva

pro

esseva

tendeva

progressive

homines

inter

80 e 90

annos

presso

a 13 g per

medic

de hemoglobina

persisteva

100 ml de sanguine.
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