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Despite an aging population, RBC demand may not increase as much as predicted in other studies. This depends on the extent to which other effects, like that of optimal blood use, will neutralize the effects of aging of the transfusion recipient population. Still, the observed downward trend in donor recruitment in the Netherlands must be stopped to maintain a sufficient RBC supply.
Borkent‐Raven et al. (Fri,) studied this question.