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Smoking fewer than 20 cigarettes per day and remaining abstinent for more than 12 hours reduces carboxyhemoglobin levels in packed red blood cells for transfusion

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of smokers among blood donors and the effect of smoking on the quality of donated blood have not been extensively explored. In the present study, we determined the prevalence of smoker donors in a large blood bank in Southern Brazil and evaluated the quality of packed red...

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Autores principales: Boehm, Renata E., Arbo, Bruno D., Leal, Denise, Hansen, Alana W., Pulcinelli, Rianne R., Thiesen, Flávia V., Balsan, Almeri M., Onsten, Tor G. H., Gomez, Rosane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6157890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30256832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204102