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What Do Elevated Blood Platelet Count Indicate?
I am a 68 year old female recuperating from final effects of the flu ( 2 months worth of coughing etc...) and my blood work today revealed a platelet count for the first time of 429. My doctor is not yet too concerned and I will be redoing my blood work with hep B component and liver evaluations in about a month. Could this high count be something serious. I am also borderline pre diabetic and have borderline high cholesterol with good LDL is as well. Thanks for your response.
Mon, 30 Apr 2018
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I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Most of the elevated platelet counts are due to reactive causes and levels will be normalized after the reactive cause will go off.
That too, elevated platelet count is very mild and does not worry about the platelet count.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Siddartha
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Most of the elevated platelet counts are due to reactive causes and levels will be normalized after the reactive cause will go off.
That too, elevated platelet count is very mild and does not worry about the platelet count.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Siddartha
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