Blood viscosity and optimal hematocrit in narrow tubes
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOS Press in Biorheology
- Vol. 27 (5), 779-788
- https://doi.org/10.3233/BIR-1990-27513
Abstract
Blood viscosity in normal adults was measured in glass tubes with diameters of 50, 100 and 500 μ m for a wide range of adjusted feed hematocrits (15-70%). Blood viscosity decreased at each of the adjusted feed hematocrits when going from a 500-μ m tuThis publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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