William Aird, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, shared a post on X:
“What Determines The ESR?
- high ESR: high fibrinogen, high immunoglobulins, low Hct
- low ESR: poikilocytosis, low RBC deformability, high Hct, high plasma viscosity
Red cell stacking speeds it up. Resistance slows it down.
See here.”
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