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Editorial
. 2014 Jun;99(6):953-5.
doi: 10.3324/haematol.2014.106260.

Platelet count and aging

Carlo L Balduini  1 , Patrizia Noris  2
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Editorial

Platelet count and aging

Carlo L Balduini et al. Haematologica. 2014 Jun.
No abstract available

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Platelet count by age and sex in 40,987 inhabitants of seven Italian areas. Platelet count decreases with age, and women have more platelets than man after puberty. Modified with permission (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) from Büno et al.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Age and sex-related variations in platelet count in 40,987 inhabitants of seven Italian areas. Numbers inside bars represent reference intervals (2.5th and 97.5th percentiles) estimated on the global population. Numbers outside bars define ‘extended reference intervals’ whose upper and lower limits are those defining the upper and the lower limits of normal ranges in the geographical areas with the highest and lowest mean platelet counts, respectively. Subjects with platelet counts within the reference intervals have to be considered normal, while those with platelet counts outside this range but within the extended one are in a ‘gray’ area that is still compatible with a normal phenotype, but also with mild forms of thrombocytosis or thrombocytopenia. Reproduced with permission (http://cre-ativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) from Büno et al.
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