The role of smoking, in particular hookah smoking, in the development of hypoxia and, as its consequence, – polycythemia with subsequent development of hypertension is often underestimated; modification of this risk factor can lead to the normalization of blood pressure, hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, as well as red blood cell count.
A case of a 31 years old man, Caucasian, applied to the General Therapeutic Clinic of the National Military Medical Clinical Center “Main Military Clinical Center” (Kyiv, Ukraine), with hypertension and secondary polycythemia associated with cigarette and hookah smoking is presented.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.