Talk:Hemorheology

Merge from blood viscosity and blood viscoelasticity

 * Blood viscosity and viscoelasticity are characteristics of blood hemorheology. For taking off duplicated information of wikipedia, these articles could be merged to hemorheology. Any objection? --Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 17:35, 30 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Since Wikipedia serves people generally, many of whom are not versed much at all in medical terminology, I think it may be less confusing to leave it as separate, linked articles. Having a relatively simpler, more easily understandable treatment of blood viscosity available without the neophyte having to wade through "hemorheology" is a superior service offering, I think. Many times, the person who needs to consult this knowledge base is under great psychological pressure (illness of a loved one, test coming up in school, etc.) and keeping it simple would be better-received than would unifying the presentation under the more general topic. Eliminating duplication can easily be taken too far! 75.137.109.211 (talk) 05:47, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The search word "blood viscosity" would remain because it could redirect to a section with similar denomination inside hemorheology. Hemorheology deals with blood viscosity, whose actual article is too short. It makes no sense separating the articles. Merging will not delete any content and it would reduce confusion. --Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 22:40, 4 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Support merging. Blood viscosity may remain a section header.  I have previously been to blood viscosity looking for the topics of hemorheology, but did not know the latter existed.    A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 08:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I have completed this merge. --LT910001 (talk) 02:53, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I am sorry, but we had agreed to merge blood viscosity to hemorheology, not the opposite as you did. Was this a mistake or do you have an argument for this unexpected move?--Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 12:37, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It appears I have completed the reverse move. This was accidental and I have no objections to reversing it.--LT910001 (talk) 01:34, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge from blood viscosity done. Thanks LT910001! Now I will merge blood viscoelasticity. --Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 12:19, 15 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge from blood viscoelasticity ✅! Now we need to clean this article. --Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 22:37, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

"Anemia can reduce blood viscosity, which may lead to heart failure.[8]"
Short story:

"Anemia can reduce blood viscosity, which may lead to heart failure.[8]"

Under what circumstances does reducing the blood viscosity lead to heart failure? Furthermore, source [8] talks about the link between anemia treatment and heart failure, not between anemia and heart failure; in that sense, either the source needs to be changed, or the text should be altered.

Long story: There are two types of heart failure: systolic and diastolic.

• Systolic disfunction is caused by a decrease in inotropy and/or an increase in afterload.

• Diastolic disfunction is caused by a decrease in preload.

• A drop in blood viscosity would lead to a drop in peripheral resistance (Poiseuille's law). This decreases the afterload, and it therefore cannot cause systolic disfunction.

• There is no reason why a drop in blood viscosity should cause a decrease in preload, and therefore it should not cause diastolic disfunction.

I might be wrong, so I will leave the article as it is. Could someone with more experience please take care of it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.74.116.96 (talk) 21:03, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

The note at the top, which says "the article is full of duplicated informations[sic] in different sections", should please be removed. While the article is long, I found no duplication of information.Payasam (Mukul Dube) (talk) 01:58, 8 June 2019 (UTC)