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Short story:
"Anemia can reduce blood viscosity, which may lead to heart failure.[8]"
Under what circumstances does reducing the blood viscosity lead to heart failure? Furthermore, source [8] talks about the link between anemia treatment and heart failure, not between anemia and heart failure; in that sense, either the source needs to be changed, or the text should be altered.
Long story:
There are two types of heart failure: systolic and diastolic.
• Systolic disfunction is caused by a decrease in inotropy and/or an increase in afterload.
• Diastolic disfunction is caused by a decrease in preload.
• A drop in blood viscosity would lead to a drop in peripheral resistance (Poiseuille's law). This decreases the afterload, and it therefore cannot cause systolic disfunction.
• There is no reason why a drop in blood viscosity should cause a decrease in preload, and therefore it should not cause diastolic disfunction.
I might be wrong, so I will leave the article as it is. Could someone with more experience please take care of it? — Preceding
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84.74.116.96 (
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21:03, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
The note at the top, which says "the article is full of duplicated informations[sic] in different sections", should please be removed. While the article is long, I found no duplication of information.
Payasam (Mukul Dube) (
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01:58, 8 June 2019 (UTC)