Red blood cell distribution width and mortality risk in a community-based prospective cohort

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 588-594

  Perlstein, Todd S ^a   Weuve, Jennifer ^b   Pfeffer, Marc A ^a   Beckman, Joshua A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CELL SIZE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63849278012     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.55     Document Type: Article

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