Elevated white blood cell count and carotid plaque thickness: The Northern Manhattan stroke study

Stroke

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 842-849

  Elkind, Mitchell S ^a,b,c,e   Cheng, Jianfeng ^d   Boden Albala, Bernadette ^b,d   Paik, Myunghee C ^d   Sacco, Ralph L ^a,b,c,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cerebrovascular disorders; Epidemiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THICKNESS;

EID: 0035067957     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.32.4.842     Document Type: Article

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