Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of long-term mortality in African Americans undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Poludasu, Shyam ^a   Cavusoglu, Erdal ^a   Khan, Waqas ^a   Marmur, Jonathan D ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEUTROPHILS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 74849131162     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20503     Document Type: Article

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