Cardiovascular risk is influenced by a variety of factors such as low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), inflammation, smoking, and exercise, among many others. Together, these factors affect blood viscosity and ultimately, cardiovascular risk. In this section you can view scientific abstracts highlighting the relationships between a wide variety of factors and blood viscosity. 

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Antithrombin III 

Albumin 

Apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) 

Apolipoprotein B (ApoB) 

Adjusted whole blood viscosity (or hematocrit-corrected blood viscosity, normalized for Hct) 

Blood glucose 

C-reactive protein (CRP) 

Chylomicrons 

Echinocytes 

Erythrocyte aggregation (RBC aggregation) 

Erythrocyte deformability 

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) 

Fibrinogen 

Flow velocity 

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Hematocrit (Hct) (or packed cell volume PCV, erythrocyte volume fraction EVF) Hemoglobin (Hgb) 

High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) 

Immunoglobulin A 

Immunoglobulin G 

Immunoglobulins (unspecified) 

Inflammation 

Lipids 

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) 

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) 

Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) (or mean cell volume, mean erythrocyte volume) N 

P-selectin 

Peripheral vascular resistance 

Plasma osmolality 

Plasma proteins 

Plasma viscosity (PV) 

Plasminogen 

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) 

Platelet activation 

Platelet aggregation 

Platelet factor 4 (PF4) 

Platelets (or thrombocytes) 

Red blood cell count (RBC count) 

Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) 

Red cell filterability 

Rouleaux 

Serum viscosity 

Shear rate 

Shear stress (or wall shear stress WSS, endothelial shear stress ESS, vascular shear stress) Sickle cell

Total cholesterol 

Total cholesteroliglycerides 

Triglyceride-rich lipoprotein (TRL) 

Triglycerides 

Troponin 

Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) 

Very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C) 

Very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C)throcyte aggregation (RBC aggregation) 

White blood cells (WBC) (or leukocytes) 

Whole blood filterability (WBF) 

Whole blood viscosity (WBV) 

Yield stress 

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