| Pervious 2015 study [8] | This study |
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Collection locality | Lhasa | Chengdu |
Preparation time of SRBCs | One week after whole-blood collection | Within 6Â h of whole-blood collection |
Population | Han Chinese who migrated to the Tibetan plateau for more than 1 year | Local Tibetan volunteers, resident of Tibet (> 3600 m) for more than 10 years, and blood was collected within 30 days of leaving the Tibetan Plateau |
Grouping | No further grouping was performed in high altitude population | Volunteers were divided into the high-altitude control (HAC) group (120 g/L < males ≤ 185 g/L, 115 g/L < females ≤ 165 g/L) and the HAPC group (males ≥ 210 g/L, females ≥ 190 g/L) |