{"id":32870,"date":"2023-04-02T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/?p=32870"},"modified":"2023-04-18T23:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:34:54","slug":"esr-erythrocyte-sedimentation-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/esr-erythrocyte-sedimentation-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"ESR \u2013 Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>About the test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ESR is a non-specific index of inflammation in the human body. It measures how quickly red blood cells settle at the bottom of a glass capillary tube after one hour. The faster the erythrocytes fall at the bottom of the tube, the higher the ESR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blood sample<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No specific preparation required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venipuncture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increased values<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bacterial infections (pyelonephritis, endocarditis, pneumonia, diverticulitis)<\/li>\n<li>Autoimmune diseases (Systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatic polymyalgia, temporal arteritis)<\/li>\n<li>Inflammations (acute pelvic inflammatory disease)<\/li>\n<li>Anemia of acute or chronic disease<\/li>\n<li>Malignancies<\/li>\n<li>Myocardial infarction, pericarditis<\/li>\n<li>Contraceptives<\/li>\n<li>Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Crohn\u2019s disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since ESR is a non-specific test, a diagnosis requires additional laboratory tests and clinical assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Women tend to have a high ESR during menstruation and during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>ESR is not a parameter of the total blood count.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESR is a non-specific index of inflammation in the human body. It measures how quickly red blood cells settle at the bottom of a glass capillary tube after one hour. The faster the erythrocytes fall at the bottom of the tube, the higher the ESR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-list-of-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33487,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32870\/revisions\/33487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}