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Demonstrates a positive correlation between haemoglobin and blood lipids in healthy non-anaemic individuals, suggesting plasma volume shifts may influence cardiovascular risk.
In a study of 2,458 healthy non-anaemic subjects a positive correlation was found between haemoglobin levels and serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels. This may be due to simple changes in plasma volume, which may increase when the haemoglobin concentration decreases. Such an association between plasma lipid levels and haemoglobin values might be of importance in the aetiology of coronary heart disease, as a high haemoglobin value is known to be a "risk factor" in myocardial infarction.
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Böttiger et al. (1972) studied this question.
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