• Question: Do people naturally have different volumes of blood or do they all have the same?

    Asked by emmagrobler to Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 27 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 27 Jun 2013:


      Yes – the amount of blood circulating in our body is dependent upon our weight – usually around 1/11th of our weight equivocates to blood volume

      Therefore a man weighing 20 stone would have a considerably larger volume than a man weighing 13 stone

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