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3022096
Your body naturally produces several different types of white blood cells. White blood cells work to keep you healthy by fighting off viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. Basophils are a type of white blood cell. Although they’re produced in the bone marrow, they’re found in many tissues throughout your body. Basophils contain heparin. This is a naturally occurring blood-thinning substance. [1]
Basophils make up less than 1 percent of your circulating white blood cells. A healthy range is 0 to 3 basophils in each microliter of blood.
Basophilia or Basophilic Leukocytosis occurs when the Basophil count exceeds 2% of the differentical white celss count. [3]
In allergic reactions, the immune system is exposed to an allergen. Basophils release histamine during allergic reactions. [2]
In the OMOP vocabulary 3022096 is a Standard Concept that represents the measurement BASOPHILS/100 LEUKOCYTES IN BLOOD
The recommended low and high values for each unit associated with 3022096 are below. These are not meant to be normal values. Rather, these are meant to be biologically plausible values. For example, it would be implausible to see a patient with a weight of 0 kg though a person could be 2.5 kg.
In the OMOP vocabulary 8554 is a Standard Concept that represents the unit PERCENT
0.00
5.0
The range 0-5 was chosen based on values seen in real world data. There are a number of outliers seen in this measurement likely due to source data entry mis-types and/or meaurement mis-labeling. In the data reviewed more than 99% of data with this standard unit concept should be accounted for.