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Carbon monoxide binds with hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin. All of the following statements about carbon monoxide are true except

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Carbon monoxide binds with hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin. All of the following statements about carbon monoxide are true except


  1. The background level of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood is about 0.4 percent
  2. Smoking one pack of cigarettes a day increases the background level tenfold
  3. The affinity of carbon monoxide for hemoglobin is 200 times more than that of oxygen
  4. Carboxyhemoglobin levels of greater than 25 percent can be fatal
  5. A characteristic sign of carbon monoxide poisoning is acrocyanosis

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