Blood Test Report: What You Need To Know

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Blood Test Report What You Need To Know
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• There are many ways blood testing can help
  doctors, therefore they use blood test reports as
  their main source of information before they
  provide assessment, medications and treatments.

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Below mentioned are specific reasons for which
blood tests are used for

• To assess how well organs are working, such as
  liver, heart, thyroid and kidney
• Diagnose conditions and diseases like diabetes,
  anemia, HIV / AIDS, coronary heart diseases and
  cancer
• Check whether the patient has any risks for heart
  ailments
• To assess whether the current medication being
  taken is effective
• To know how well the patients blood is clotting

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• Blood testing is nothing but usual on routine
  check-ups, doctors may order different types of
  blood testing to check how the patients body is
  working.
•  Most of the blood tests do not require special
  preparations. Yet, for others fasting or not
  eating any food for specific hours given, usually
  eight to twelve hours, is recommended. Doctors
  will give special instructions to patients on
  what they need to do before the actual test, to
  ensure accurate results.

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The Procedure of Blood Tests

• During the test, sample blood will be taken from
  the patients body. It is most of the time drawn
  in the arm or can be at the back of the patients
  elbow using needles. Finger pricking is another
  way to extract blood from patient.
• Most of the time, the procedure is easy and
  quick, yet some patients may experience
  discomfort for few hours after blood has drawn
  from their body.

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Some of the most usual blood testing are

• Blood chemistry testing
• Blood testing to assess the heart disease risk
• CBC or complete blood count

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The blood tests reports that can be collected
from the above tests are

• Blood chemistry testing
• This can provide doctors about the patients
  muscles, bones, organs like liver and kidney,
  including the heart. The report will include
  electrolyte testing, tests that reports the
  functionalities of the kidney, calcium and blood
  glucose.
• Most of the time, fasting is required for these
  type of tests.
• Blood testing to assess the heart disease risk
• This can help doctors assess the risk for CHD or
  Coronary Heart Disease. It provides report on
  Total Cholesterol, Bad cholesterol, good
  cholesterol and the like.

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• CBC or complete blood count
• This is one of the most used type of blood test,
  as this is ordered even during regular check-ups.
  This can help detect disorders on blood and other
  diseases, like infections, clotting problems,
  anemia, disorder in immune system and blood
  cancers.
• Blood test report can highly help doctors to
  assess patients conditions, hence they order the
  type of test they need before providing verdict
  and treatments.

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