malfeasance
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bossetti, I would not feel safe at 56 at all.
I do not know what my highest number was, but I had hemoglobin at 19.7 once if memory serves.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Using that very rough 3:1 ratio, that would have been around 59.1
And it did not feel good.
Things were not right.
The risk is higher, and there is no doubt about that. With that having been said, the odds of you having a stroke are pretty low regardless, just like running a bunch of steroids raises cardiovascular risk but lots of folks do it without keeling over from a heart attack. But the risk is there, nonetheless, and some do keel over from a heart attack, and the rest of us claim it was "genetic" family history.
I do not know what my highest number was, but I had hemoglobin at 19.7 once if memory serves.
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Relationship between haemoglobin and haematocrit in the definition of anaemia - PubMed
Measurement of haematocrit count is easy and can be performed in most rural health care centres. However, the corresponding Hgb levels cannot be derived with an acceptable accuracy using the value 3 as a conversion factor. Furthermore, the commonly assumed 'equivalent' cut-off points for anaemia...
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Using that very rough 3:1 ratio, that would have been around 59.1
And it did not feel good.
Things were not right.
The risk is higher, and there is no doubt about that. With that having been said, the odds of you having a stroke are pretty low regardless, just like running a bunch of steroids raises cardiovascular risk but lots of folks do it without keeling over from a heart attack. But the risk is there, nonetheless, and some do keel over from a heart attack, and the rest of us claim it was "genetic" family history.