Are Blood Transfusions Bad for Your Health?

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Are Blood Transfusions Bad for Your Health?

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The August issue of the journal Anesthesiology, contains a study on potential long-term adverse effects resulting from blood transfusion and reveals that moderate amounts of transfused blood in patients in patients undergoing cardiac surgery did not lead to long-term health problems or increased death rates for the majority of recipients.

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