Can Pid Cause Heart Failure

Alternative Names

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Sed rate; Sedimentation rate

Normal Values

Adults (Westergren method):

• Men under 50 years old: less than 15 mm/hr.
• Men over 50 years old: less than 20 mm/hr.
• Women under 50 years old: less than 20 mm/hr.
• Women over 50 years old: less than 30 mm/hr.

Children (Westergren method):

• Newborn: 0 to 2 mm/hr.
• Neonatal to puberty: 3 to 13 mm/hr.

Note: mm/hr. = millimeters per ho...

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