Monocytosis is an independent risk marker for coronary artery disease

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 240-244

  Neto, Abrahão Afiune ^a,b   De Pádua Mansur, Antonio ^a   Avakian, Solange Desirée ^a   Gomes, Everly P S G ^a   Ramires, José Antonio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Hemogram; Inflammation; Leukocytosis; Monocytosis

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHIL; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONOCYTOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 33645658774     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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