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Will holding your breath for over a minute during your cbc change the results?
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No.: Try it and see. This will certainly influence some lab tests, but the CBC is just a measure of the number of cells in your blood none of which changes in any significant way over short spans of time or with changes in respiration.
Answered 6/10/2014
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