Introducing heat-not-burn tobacco improves hematocrit and cigarette smoking-related symptoms in patients with smokers' polycythemia and polycythemia vera.

Introducing heat-not-burn tobacco improves hematocrit and cigarette smoking-related symptoms in patients with smokers' polycythemia and polycythemia vera.

Cigarette smoking induces relative and absolute erythrocytosis (smokers' polycythemia). In patients with smokers' polycythemia complicated by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the incidence and mortality rate of pulmonary embolism increase. Therefore, improving erythrocytosis by smoki...

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Main Authors: Kazuhide Iizuka, Yoshikazu Iizuka, Shun Ito, Toshihide Endo, Hironao Nukariya, Yuichi Takeuchi, Takashi Koike, Kazuya Kurihara, Hiromichi Takahashi, Masaru Nakagawa, Takashi Hamada, Shimon Ohtake, Noriyoshi Iriyama, Katsuhiro Miura, Tomohiro Nakayama, Yoshihiro Hatta, Hideki Nakamura, Norio Komatsu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323437
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