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“Will this kill me?”

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

What is Mean Corpuscular Volume? I recently had some blood work done, and the doctor said my MCV was elevated, but I don’t know what that is. The Standard range is 80.0-100.0 fl. Mine was 100.7 fl. She said this might be due to a b12 deficiency. Will this Kill me? Will I need medicine for this? Does it go away? (more…)

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