Kirsty McDowell

Oct 9, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jawad H. Butt |Kirsty McDowell |Toru Kondo |Akshay S. Desai

Introduction Red cell distribution width (RDW) is a measure of the heterogeneity in the size of circulating red cells, and it is routinely assessed as part of a complete blood cell count, but not always reported.1, 2 RDW is calculated by dividing the standard deviation of the red blood cell volume by the mean corpuscular volume multiplied by 100.1, 2 Higher RDW values reflect greater heterogeneity in red blood cell size (i.e. anisocytosis), and, together with other measures, it has...