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.
Hmong in Minnesota. At the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, thousands of Hmong (the H is silent) people immigrated to the U.S. A Southeast Asian minority group, the Hmong originally lived and farmed in the mountains of South China, Laos, Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand.