Nope. Hct and plasma viscosity drive whole blood viscosity. Plasma viscosity driven by inflammation and protein content in the plasma.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/White-blood-cell-and-platelet-counts-could-affect-Ho/3759b3fe0e486e5504446cb3d338360f597ab8f5
@Mkinstinct since you are a reader. Long term concern is needless wear and tear, not stroke. But it’s highly dependent on the individual and their cardiovascular status.
I plan on using this thread to capture comments/discussion on secondary erythrocytosis from TRT (Hct/viscosity) and cardiovascular risk. Alot of my previous comments/question/posts have been spread over a number of other’s threads.
In particular, I’ve seen a number of comments (even interviews with Experts) trying to rationalize running Hct high because there’s plenty of people at high altitude that do just fine with high Hct. Truth is there are a fraction of these folks that suffer significan…
I think we are all in violent agreement here actually. It’s not at all clear that TRT or Hct was the cause although previous study has shown correlation between Hct and VT (not causation between Hct and VT). See this review and paper cited therein. So I am agreeing that the Provider above may have little evidence to throw the event at TRT/Hct but worth being cautious since we don’t completely understand it.
As stated previously many many times , primary concern with elevated Hct would be pote…
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