White blood cell count and risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in nationwide sample of Japanese - Results from the NIPPON DATA90

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 479-485

  Tamakoshi, Koji ^a   Toyoshima, Hideaki ^a   Yatsuya, Hiroshi ^a   Matsushita, Kunihiro ^a   Okamura, Tomonori ^b   Hayakawa, Takehito ^c   Okayama, Akira ^d   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Mortality; White blood cell count

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING;

EID: 34047098341     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.479     Document Type: Article

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