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Merge from blood viscosity and blood viscoelasticity

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  • Since Wikipedia serves people generally, many of whom are not versed much at all in medical terminology, I think it may be less confusing to leave it as separate, linked articles. Having a relatively simpler, more easily understandable treatment of blood viscosity available without the neophyte having to wade through "hemorheology" is a superior service offering, I think. Many times, the person who needs to consult this knowledge base is under great psychological pressure (illness of a loved one, test coming up in school, etc.) and keeping it simple would be better-received than would unifying the presentation under the more general topic. Eliminating duplication can easily be taken too far! 75.137.109.211 (talk) 05:47, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • The search word "blood viscosity" would remain because it could redirect to a section with similar denomination inside hemorheology. Hemorheology deals with blood viscosity, whose actual article is too short. It makes no sense separating the articles. Merging will not delete any content and it would reduce confusion. --Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 22:40, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Anemia can reduce blood viscosity, which may lead to heart failure.[8]"

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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 unsigned comment added by 84.74.116.96 (talk) 21:03, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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) (talk) 01:58, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]