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Monday, February 12, 2007

My body.

I got my medical screening results back a couple of days ago and I have to say I'm not really excited about what I heard.

There are apparently some things that I have too much of, and it's not just fats and cholestorol (that one's only slightly high though).

3 main items. They are white blood cells, AST and ALT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cells
There are normally between 4×109 and 1.1×1010 white blood cells in a litre of healthy adult blood. In conditions such as leukemia this may rise to as many as 50,000 white blood cells in a single drop of blood(only 1% of blood on average is a white blood cell).

Aspartate Transaminase (AST) also called Serum Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminase (SGOT) or aspartate aminotransferase (ASAT) (EC 2.6.1.1) is similar to alanine transaminase (ALT) in that it is another enzyme associated with liver parenchymal cells. It is raised in acute liver damage. It is also present in red blood cells and cardiac muscle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanine_transaminase
Elevated levels of ALT often suggest the existence of other medical problems such as alcoholic or viral hepatitis, congestive heart failure, liver damage, biliary duct problems, infectious mononucleosis, or myopathy.

Thank you, Wikipedia.

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