These health-related causes and impacts of elevated hematocrit levels have been reported: 1  Fall in plasma levels. 2  Sleep apnea. 3  Dehydration. 4  In cases of dengue fever, a high hematocrit is a danger sign of an increased risk of dengue shock syndrome.
The Hmong traditionally farmed in the mountainous areas of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Most of the Hmong were subsistence farmers who grew only enough food to feed their families, because farming was difficult in the mountainous regions where most of them lived.
The Hmong/Mong is an indigenous people in Asia. They are also one of the sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity in China. Thousands of economic and political refugees have resettled in Western countries in two separate waves. The first wave resettled in the late 1970s, mostly in the United States, after the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao takeovers of the pro-US governments in South Vietnam and Laos respectively. Since 1949, Miao has been official recognized as one of the 55 official minority groups b