Carbon dioxide helps the blood vessels constrict and relax, and it also plays a role in cellular respiration. When a human inhales, he takes in oxygen. When he exhales, he releases carbon dioxide. Most of the carbon dioxide in the blood occurs in the form of bicarbonate. The carbon dioxide blood test, also called the bicarbonate test, measures the amount of bicarbonate in the bloodstream. Some medical conditions and drugs cause low bicarbonate levels. Kidney Disease. The kidneys maintain normal levels of sodium, potassium, carbon dioxide and phosphorus in the blood.
On June 29, 1967, Jayne Mansfield was killed in a motor accident near New Orleans, Louisiana, on the way to a television engagement. She was buried in the family plot in Fairview Cemetery in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania. BIBLIOGRAPHY: May Mann, Jayne Mansfield (New York: Drake, 1973). Martha Saxton, Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1975).
At sixteen, before leaving Texas, Jayne married Paul Mansfield; a daughter, Jayne Marie, was born to them in 1950. Jayne divorced Mansfield in 1956 and married Miklos (Mickey) Hargitay, a former Mr. Universe, two years later. With Hargitay she had two sons, Miklos Jeffrey and Zoltan Anthony, and a daughter, Mariska Magdolna. Jayne and Hargitay were divorced in 1964.