Patient preparation:
Patient must be fasting
The test material is blood.

Significance of the test:
ESR - it is a fall of red blood cells (the rate at which the red cells in the plasma fall).
ESR is a non-specific indicator of the so-called acute phase, if it is elevated, the patient is searched for organic disease.
Significance of the ESR test: an indicator of inflammatory and proliferative processes.
Abnormal values of ESR: accompany the inflammatory processes, rheumatoid and cancer.

Preparation and preparation of material:
Blood is drawn on EDTA (as for morphology).