forsure other things going on, but this is why blood pressure stays elevated and stroke and CAVs increase. yes stress on the heart during sleep is part of it but DRs monitor hematocrit and increase in CBC to determine severity and how at risk someone is for a CAV.. that is to say, you can have apnea and low hematocrit ur at much lower risk than someone with higher blood counts even if have "milder" apnea.It’s the sleep apnea or disease process that causes the harm, the high hematocrit is in response to the bodies lack of oxygen. High hematocrit is innocent in this case, in other words, the high hematocrit isn’t the causal factor in causing harm.
Sleep apnea causes high hematocrit, hypoxia and you want to blame the high hematocrit?
articles about why elevated hematocrit is risk factor for stroke and heart disease. most people with heart disease dont have low hematocrit.
Relationship Between Hematocrit Level and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Community‐Based Population - PMC
This study aimed to determine the relationship between hematocrit (HCT) levels and cardiovascular risk factors in a community‐based population of middle‐aged adults. From April 2011 to February 2012, a total of 1,884 middle‐aged adults were selected ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
High hematocrit value is a risk factor for myocardial infarction
I read with interest the article on the positive correlation between the hematocrit value and the frequency of myocardial infarction (MI) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) by Spiess and associates.1 That a high hematocrit value was associated with an increased risk for MI has been...
www.jtcvs.org
Hematocrit and risk of coronary heart disease: the Puerto Rico Heart Health Program
Hematocrit was determined in 2555 rural and 6151 urban men age 45 to 64 years participating in the Puerto Rico Heart Health Program, a prospective epi…
www.sciencedirect.com
. "Current data suggest that increases in hemoglobin may decrease nitric oxide and adversely affect vascular function. In the preclinical setting, these changes could precipitate the development of heart failure (HF)."
as you see DECADES of research indicate it is bad and we know this anecdotal guys with elevated hematocrit gt higher blood pressure, higher blood pressure increases risks.. this is PART of why body builders are more prone to heart attacks. dont let internet DRs fool you MAJORITY of research indicated higher red blood cells are risk factor. this is also why EPO is dangerous aswell. Drs who say high hematocrit should have NO real issue RXing EPO. if have low RHR and are in ultra high cardio vascular shape would be perhaps 1 decoupling of the higher hematocrit, but all things equal as studies keep showing elevate RBC increase risk of HF/stroke etc. that whole platelet thing they attempt is simply a numbers game as platelets change frequently like when your sick. maybe your ok with high BP and high hematocrit as normally have lower platelets but guess what people get sick and platlets SPIKE and thats when heart attacks and strokes happen (just like we see in covid 3-6 months after infection as produce an increase % of immature platlets even when #s look OK).
anyway, of course we need contrarian scientist/DRs to question things, but FAR to much is taken as closer to fact than it is, and folks here seem to have a BIAS for everything TRT is GOOD. of course somethings arent as bad as we thought but that does not mean "no worries".
remember the main reason why sleep apnea is bad is because of increase blood pressure aswell as extra nightly stress on heart when your suppost to be resting. less sleep regardless of apnea will also raise HR and BP. ie many factors are making your cardio risk higher..
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