Baseline total and specific differential white blood cell counts and 5-year all-cause mortality in community-dwelling older women

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 982-987

  Leng, Sean X ^a   Xue, Qian Li ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Ferrucci, Luigi ^b   Fried, Linda P ^a   Walston, Jeremy D ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Lymphocytes; Neutrophils; Older women; Predictive value; Total WBC count

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SMOKING HABIT;

AGED; BASOPHILS; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MONOCYTES; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHILS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27944474696     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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