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The authors highlight that failing to measure fibrinogen may confound the reported relationship between plasma lipids and viscosity.
In a recent paper by Irace et al. The authors found that HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol moderately influenced plasma viscosity, but not blood viscosity, and that triglycerides did not seem to have a major effect on both viscosity parameters. In this study, the authors did not determine fibrinogen, which is of paramount importance in rheological blood behaviour. Moreover, it is usually reported that plasma lipids and fibrinogen levels are closely related [3-6], thus not having determined fibrinogen may influence the results reported by Irace et al.
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