Leukocyte count is associated with reduced endothelial reactivity

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 329-338

  Elkind, Mitchell S V ^a,b,e   Sciacca, Robert R ^a   Boden Albala, Bernadette ^b,c   Tondella, Maria Lucia C ^d   Feikin, Daniel R ^d   Fields, Barry S ^d   Sacco, Ralph L ^a,b   Di Tullio, Marco R ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

^c Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^e NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Endothelial reactivity; Epidemiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY RISK; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VASCULITIS; VASODILATION;

EID: 22544462841     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.01.013     Document Type: Article

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