(Local Jail Inmates) According to a federal survey of jail inmates, of the total 440,670 jail inmates in the US in 2002, 112,447 (25.5%) were drug offenders: 48,823 (11.1%) for possession and 56,574 (12.8%) for trafficking.
What Causes Low Hematocrit. Anemia is a condition in which the level of hemoglobin is low. Low level causes low red blood cells in the blood. Which in turn causes hematocrit. The range of reference varies slightly from the one source to other. But the appropriate range is 13.5 per gram in men and 12 g in women. Hematocrit is the measurement of red blood cells in the blood.
Purpose. Blood is made up of red and white blood cells, and plasma. A decrease in the number or size of red cells also decreases the amount of space they occupy, resulting in a lower hematocrit. An increase in the number or size of red cells increases the amount of space they occupy, resulting in a higher hematocrit.ematocrit (hÄÂ·maËÂ·t Â·krit) , n the number of red blood cells in a sample expressed as a percentage of the total blood volume. The normal hematocrit range is between 43% to 49% in men and 37% to 43% in women.