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De la Cruz-Góngora, Vanessa, Ignacio Méndez-Gómez-Humarán, Elsa Berenice Gaona-Pineda, et al. Nutrients, December 2022

Using drops of capillary blood produces too much random variation to approximate true hemoglobin values. Practitioners should not use this method to diagnose anemia in individuals and populations.