New study finds another cause of highland erytheocytosis

Plateau erythematosis is a chronic plateau disease, referred to as "high redness", which is found in the highland migration populationCompared with healthy people at the same altitude, "high red" patients with red blood cell hyperplasia, prone to headache, shortness of breath, fatigue, insomnia and other symptomsFor a long time, the causes of this disease and its associated regulatory mechanisms have not been fully clarified, leading to difficult to cure patients, and poor prevention effect's latest study, published in the American Journal of Highland Medicine and Biology, suggests that the longer life span of red blood cells is another important factor in the increase in red blood cells, which provides new theories and directions for the study of erythema syndrome caused by low oxygen environments in the plateauDrTang Feng of theHighland Medical Research Center, the researchers examined the survival of rat red blood cells in chronic low-oxygen environment, and after 30 days of simulation with biotin markers in rats, they used flow cytomytography to detect changes in the number of labeled mature red blood cellsThe results showed that the increase of labeled mature red blood cells in rats under chronic low oxygen environment showed that red blood cells lived longer in the plateau environmentThe study also found that chronic low oxygen can alter the associated indicators of red blood cell decay, a well-known scholar of international highland medicine, Purhal Joseph, has verified this important discovery with different kinds of experimental animals, and has obtained the same resultsIn his review, Purhar Joseph notes that this internationally important achievement is significant, and previous studies have only shown that low oxygen environments promote red blood cell production as a contributing factor to increasered red blood cell production, and this study confirms for the first time that longer life span of red blood cells is another important factornext step, the Team plans to use the new results to find ways to intervene in the occurrence of chronic altitude sickness, which will more effectively prevent and control altitude red blood cell hypertrophy and related complications in the future.