PURPOSE In this study we investigated if testosterone undecanoate attenuates anemia and the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with hypogonadism. MATERIALS AND METHODS A registry study consisted of 58 participants with a subnormal total testosterone level (less than 2.35 ng/ml) and at least mild symptoms of testosterone deficiency. All patients received an injection of 1,000 mg testos...

We planned a study to research the relations among blood pressure (BP), viscosity, and temperature in healthy subjects and among BP, viscosity, and glucose in diabetics. With simple random sampling method, 53 healthy and 29 diabetes mellitus (DM) type II subjects were selected. Parameters were determined with capillary viscometer and glucometer at 22 degrees C, 36.5 degrees C, and 39.5 degrees ...

Many of the clinical features of paraproteinemia result from impairment of blood flow through the vascular tree because of blood hyperviscosity. Studies were carried out in 65 patients with serum paraproteins (31 with IgG, 25 with IgM, and 9 with IgA) to examine the relationship between the blood viscosity and the frequency of selected clinical features. The blood and plasma viscosities were me...

Mackintosh, T. F., and Walker, C. H. M. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48,547. Blood viscosity in the newborn. The blood ofthe newborn has been shown to possess viscoelastic properties similar to adult blood, with a straight line relation between blood viscosity and PCV (packed cell volume) at normalPCV levels, and progressively disproportionate increases in viscosity at PCV levels a...

Blood (or plasma) rheology is related to cardiovascular risk. Mechanisms of this association are unclear but may be partially related to impaired left ventricular (LV) function and increased central blood pressure (BP) during light activity. This study aimed to test these hypotheses. Twenty patients (14 men; aged 61+/-12 years) with polycythemia rubra vera (n=16) or hemochromatosis (n=4) were s...

Hematocrit (Hct) as an indicator of blood viscosity and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) were assessed according to the season in adult participants of health screenings conducted throughout Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Data was collected at the end of summer (April) and the end of winter (August) and identified by gender. Male Hcts in August were significantly higher (P < 0.0001) ...

BACKGROUND The effect of exercise-induced lactate production on red blood cell deformability and other blood rheological changes is controversial, given heavy-exercise induces biochemical processes (e.g., oxidative stress) known to perturb haemorheology. The aim of the present study was to examine the haemorheological response to a short-duration cycling protocol designed to increase blood lact...

This study was conducted to elucidate the influence of glucose in drinking water on whole blood viscosity and plasma osmolality of broilers during high temperature exposure. Two groups of birds, which had ad libitum access to either a 4% glucose-water solution (Group G) or tap water (Group W), were exposed simultaneously to 30 C from 0300 h for 12 h each day for 3 d. During the experimental per...

Aim. To evaluate the long-term effect of rheohemapheresis (RHF) treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on photoreceptor IS/OS junction status. Methods. In our study, we followed 24 patients with dry AMD and drusenoid retinal pigment epithelium detachment (DPED) for a period of more than 2.5 years. Twelve patients (22 eyes) were treated by RHF and 12 controls (18 eyes) were randomiz...