Causes an overproduction of white blood cells that crowd the blood.

PULMONARY PHYSIOLOGY

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

A	leukemia
B	heart disease
C	hemophilia
D	sickle-cell anemia

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Like ALL, AML causes the bone marrow to overproduce abnormal white blood cells, crowding healthy blood cells and affecting the body’s ability to fight infections. Risk factors for AML include: Being male. Smoking.

Detailed explanation-2: -People with CLL may have very high white blood cell counts because of excess numbers of lymphocytes (lymphocytosis), but the leukemia cells don’t fight infection the way normal white blood cells do.

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