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IN the tropics and semitropics, unusually high values for erythrocyte sedimentation-rates are common among apparently healthy individuals. Thus, among seventy-five medically fit young Indian medical students, the mean rate (Wintrobe's method)1 was 11.2 ± 9.4, range 0.5–30 mm.; high values are assumed to be pathological, although the cause was unknown2.
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WALKER, A., FLETCHER, D., REYNOLDS, P. et al. Reduction to Normal Levels of the High Erythrocyte Sedimentation-Rates in Apparently Healthy South African Bantu Men. Nature 177, 480–481 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177480b0
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