Learnt the Correlation of Smoking and High Hemoglobin

 

Smoking can lead to an increase in red blood cells. 

To compensate the decreased oxygen delivering capacity, smokers maintain a higher hemoglobin level than non-smokers .

Sometimes, I used to wonder "Why this patient' s Hb is so high? "

Back then, I don't know the correlation between smoking Hb, hematocrit etc.

 The hematocrit is the proportion, by volume, of the blood that consists of red blood cells. It's normal value for a male less than 60 years old is less than 46% and 42% for someone more than 60 years old. For female of all age groups, it's less than 42%.

 If hematocrit increase, means your blood is getting thicker. If your blood is getting thicker, the flow will get sluggish and from there all kind of problem arise. 

Smoking deprives the bone marrow of oxygen, and it's tricked into thinking that it needs to boost its production of red blood cells, the carriers of oxygen.

The blood cells crowd the circulation and cause blood to flow sluggishly. That brings on a number of symptoms, like headache, dizziness, ear ringing and a rise in blood pressure. 

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