Hematocrit / PCV

MeasuredEssential

The proportion of your blood made up of red cells.

Moves with haemoglobin and helps confirm anaemia or dehydration.

Calculated from this result

Once a lab has this measurement, these lines cost it nothing to add.

Part of

How we rate it — Essential

Defensible in a routine adult check-up.

This rating and the description above were written against published screening guidelines by someone who is not a clinician, and are awaiting review by one. We would rather say that than imply an authority we do not have.

Check-ups that include it

In 67 of the 78check-ups we track — 86%. Cheapest first.

and 55 more.

Also sold as

Every one of these names refers to this same test. Resolving them to one canonical entry is what makes an honest comparison possible.

haematocrit · hct · hematocrit · packed cell volume · pcv · pcv haematocrit

Information here is for comparing packages, not for diagnosing yourself. Talk to a doctor about which tests you actually need.