Posted on 07/19/2022 7:53:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
A simple calculation of blood viscosity was more robust in the identification of hospitalized patients at risk for dying from COVID-19 complications when compared to common measures of inflammation and the blood clotting biomarker D-dimer.
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 with high estimated blood viscosity are at higher risk of death from complications. High blood viscosity impairs flow to small vessels and increases the risk of blood clots. This measure of blood thickness can be used as a predictor of mortality.
Doctors typically measure hematocrit and globulins (difference between total protein and albumin) in all patients for diagnosis and monitoring treatment of hospitalized patients; however, they do not measure blood viscosity directly. A validated estimate of blood viscosity can be derived from the hematocrit and globulins. In this study, the estimate of blood viscosity was more strongly associated with mortality in COVID-19 patients than other commonly used risk stratification measures. This is an easy calculation that could be added to electronic medical records or lab forms and can improve chances for survival in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
The study found that hospitalized patients who had high blood viscosity had a 60 percent higher death rate with blood viscosity measured under high flow conditions such as the arteries and 32 percent higher mortality with blood viscosity measured at low flow such as the microcirculation (blood circulation in the smallest vessels), than patients with a low blood viscosity.
Blood viscosity is elevated by acute phase reactants (fibrinogen, macroglobulins) that have been associated with acute COVID-19 infections. Blood viscosity is an integrated measure of these acute phase reactants and the cellular components that can increase during infection. When the blood viscosity is high, physicians consider therapeutic heparin for patients, hydration, or intensification of glucocorticoids to lessen the severity of the acute phase response to COVID-19.
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Ramsay Hunt syndrome and mRNA SARS-COV-2 vaccination
SARS CoV2 vaccine and aphasia.
Guess what also can affect blood viscosity...
See my above link.
So, take aspirin and drink a lot of water if you get The Wuhan.
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Is it snake venom?
So, those of us who take blood thinners are Good to Go?
It would appear so.
My Chinese Communist Coronavirus episode last January was quite mild.
I am not, and will not EVER be “VAXXED!”
I have been on blood thinners for many years.
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