U-shaped association between white blood cell count and fasting plasma glucose level [1]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 950-

  Tamakoshi, Koji ^a   Yatsuya, Hiroshi ^a   Kondo, Takaaki ^a   Hori, Yoko ^a   Zhang, Huiming ^a   Ishikawa, Miyuki ^a   Murata, Chiyoe ^a   Otsuka, Rei ^a   Zhu, ShanKuan ^b   Toyoshima, Hideaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Columbia Univ Coll Phys/Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FASTING; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0042667172     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.3.950     Document Type: Letter

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