Hemoglobin

BloodHGBHb

The iron-rich protein in red blood cells that ferries oxygen from your lungs to every tissue. A single red cell carries about 270 million hemoglobin molecules.

Also known as: Haemoglobin

Unit conversion

Read a row as “1 of this unit equals…”.

1 …	g/L	g/dL	mmol/L
g/L	—	0.1	0.0621
g/dL	10	—	0.6206
mmol/L	16.1134	1.6113	—

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Value

From

0.1 g/dL

LOINC code

718-7

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