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A diagnosis of high hemoglobin means you have an above-normal amount of the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A high level may be due to lifestyle factors, like smoking or living in a ...

Very high Hb levels were achieved at the end of the study (15.4 g/dl in men, SD 1.7), which might have substantially contributed to the high number of thrombovascular events and cardiac deaths. [70] ...

The new treatment disrupts overactive renal nerves. “My blood pressure would spike and I’d run out of breath and feel tired, and that doesn’t happen anymore,” said Garrity, 62, of Needham ...

What is probably most important to many of my patients is that they have to come in only once every 3 weeks over a course of 1 year [for treatment]. That is only 17 visits as opposed to 52 visits ...

The high-dose erythropoietin (Epo) for asphyxia and encephalopathy (HEAL) trial (NCT02811263) is a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III clinical trial designed to test ...

Methods and Results— Compared with wild-type specimens, erythropoietin was increased in atherosclerotic aortas of apolipoprotein E–deficient (apoE −/−) mice, mainly in the macrophage foam cells of the ...

The time to onset was generally within the first 3 months of treatment. Elevated serum ALT, AST, and bilirubin levels were observed in 1.8%, 1.8%, and 0.3% of CKD patients treated with VAFSEO, ...

Erythropoietin is a protein that helps the body produce red blood cells. Doctors may test erythropoietin levels in people with anemia or other blood disorders. Learn more about it here.