Total lymphocyte count and in-hospital mortality in older persons with multimorbidity

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 290-296

  Marengoni, Alessandra ^a   Petroboni, Beatrice ^b   Casella, Silvia ^a   Martinelli, Daniela ^a   Cossi, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

In hospital death; Lymphocyte; Multimorbidity; Older persons

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH DISEASE;

EID: 56249128995     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324858     Document Type: Article

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